if (thing = anotherThing)

I think we've all made this mistake at some point..

only php allows that kind of shit

@liveCoder C++ as well

this isn't shit . it is really useful when going through a cursor. while ($a = $cursor->next())

if(anotherThing = thing) should get stopped by compiler if anotherThing is a literal constant like "10" or a string or something. Could always reverse your if statements. Can't bring myself to do it yet, IDE picks the "accidental assignments" up

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