Posted by Geoff Berrow on 03/21/06 15:35

Message-ID: <yYY8TIACX8HEFw1+@eminent.demon.co.uk> from Peter Fox
contained the following:

>A way to 'burn-in' mental processes in order to distinguish = and == is
>to 'say' "=" as one word and "==" as two. For example "equals" and "is
>equal" (or "equals" and "equal to") and to get into the habit of
>'saying' conditional statements using the two word form.
>$a =[equals] $b;
>if($a =[equal]=[to] $b){ ...

A better way is not to mention equals at all

= is the assignment operator
== is the comparison operator

$a=[takes the value of]$b;
if($a ==[has the same value as] $b){ ...

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