> 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

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