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Re:Interesting Bugs Caught by ESLint's no-constant-binary-ex... by porridgeraisin on Thursday November 09, 2023 @02:10AM (#38202037)
It's very common in C

  while((buf = resultofstreamingoperation() != null) {
    
  }
The ` != null ` is redundant here but you can imagine where it'd be required.
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Re:Interesting Bugs Caught by ESLint's no-constant-binary-ex... by sweetjuly on Thursday November 09, 2023 @03:22AM (#38202417)
A more common form (and slightly less evil) is for error checking:

    if ((error = do_a_thing())) {
        // some error happened, good thing we saved the error code
    }
Given the standard "zero is success" paradigm, handling errors is very succinct.
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Re:Interesting Bugs Caught by ESLint's no-constant-binary-ex... by demondemidi on Thursday November 09, 2023 @11:39AM (#38207256)
You are arguing "common" == "good". That's not true.
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