On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 08:57:10 +0200
Georg Brandl <g.bra...@gmx.net> wrote:
> On 06/07/11 05:20, brett.cannon wrote:
> > http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/fc282e375703
> > changeset:   70695:fc282e375703
> > user:        Brett Cannon <br...@python.org>
> > date:        Mon Jun 06 20:20:36 2011 -0700
> > summary:
> >   Remove some extraneous parentheses and swap the comparison order to
> > prevent accidental assignment.
> > 
> > Silences a warning from LLVM/clang 2.9.
> 
> Swapping the comparison order here seems a bit inconsistent to me. There are
> lots of others around (e.g. "len == 0" in the patch context below). Why is
> this one so special?

Agreed. Either we do it wholesale (I find these "reversed" comparisons
a bit ugly myself) or there's no point doing it on a single occurrence.

Regards

Antoine.


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