From: gah@ugcs.caltech.edu   
      
   Warren  wrote:   
      
   > I'm writing a tool for novice Java students to submit their programs   
   > on-line and get back warnings about common mistakes, e.g. if (x = y),   
   > and assignments where the == operator is used instead of =.   
      
   I thought that Java made this C mistake illegal, except in   
   the case of boolean variables, with the requirement that the   
   expression be of type boolean.   
      
   Though I do like the simplicity of the C form, it is a convenient   
   source of hard to find bugs.   
      
   It might be that the compilers don't give an instructive   
   error for this case, though.   
      
   -- glen   
      
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