It's as dangerous in Java as it is in other languages. Just the other day I helped somebody on JavaRanch who spent days trying to figure out why their loop never ran:

   boolean loopWhileFalse = false;
   while (loopWhileFalse = false) {
      ...


On Sep 22, 2010, at 2:05 PM, Donald Winston wrote:

Yeah, I know. It's one of my quirky things. I think it's easier to read. I also refuse to use the ++ operator. I prefer i = i + 1. Pascal forever!

On Sep 22, 2010, at 7:28 AM, Ernest Friedman-Hill wrote:

Finally, a Java tip: you can (and should) just write

        else if ("STRING".equals(type))


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