> I don't know if I agree with that, but I'm willing to be convinced. :) > > Which is harder: finding the one intermittent cold solder joint among > hundreds, or finding an incorrect use of "=" (assignment) in place of > "==" (comparison)? > > ~~James > ________________
Finding the cold joint, most definitely. Most times incorrect use of =/== will be found quite quickly with a symbolic debugger and/or compile time assertions. What remains after that usually needs to be found by the binary chop method, which is about all one can use to find cold joints. Cheers -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- A/Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Mathematics UNSW SYDNEY 2052 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Australia http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
