From: "Florian Groß" <florgro@...>
Date: 2005-06-20T23:13:03+09:00
Subject: Re: x==1 vs 1==x

Jason Foreman wrote:

> If you accidentally write x = 1 instead of x == 1, it can take a long
> time to figure out your bug.

C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\flgr>ruby
foo = 10
if foo = 10 then
   puts "Hello World!"
end
-:2: warning: found = in conditional, should be ==
^Z
Hello World!

I found out about my bug before I was even done giving Ruby the full
application code. ;)