proposed change to style(9): require yoda style if statements

[Dominic Fandrey]

On 11/05/2010 21:36, Eitan Adler wrote:
> My proposal is simple:
> require that any if statement that compares a constant to a mutable variable
> be written as
> if (constant == variable)
> instead of
> if (variable == constant)
> 
> this prevents an extremely common programming error
> if (variable = constant)
> 
> While this is almost always found in testing sometimes thing can slip
> through and writing it using the former method will generate a compiler
> warning.

Is this suggestion due to the discussions around yoda-style in
the comments of:
http://www.globalnerdy.com/2010/05/09/new-programming-jargon/

I think the pro-yoda faction actually has more convincing
arguments, though I never considered using yoda-style myself.

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