[Pugged] bad toad

[Lathrop Preston]

And you would not believe how long it took me to find that bugger...

Laith
The very tired programer

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Champion" <dave@visionary.com>
To: <pug@ciapug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 11:15 AM
Subject: [Pugged] bad toad


> It's been quiet on this list... so for your comic relief:
> 
> Lathrop caught a little bug in something I wrote a while back...
> 
> if ($firstday >= 5 and $NumOfDays = 31) {
>      $rows = 6;
> }
> 
> ...oops. At the time I wrote it (2001), February showed the correct # of 
> days. However, in 2002 and 2003, the first comparison evaluates as true, 
> so the second one assigns the value of 31... oops.
> 
> I bet I'm not the only one that's been bitten by the "=" operator acting 
> as an assignment in evaluations. It's especially fun when you're 
> switching between several different languages, and most of them don't 
> act like PHP.
> 
> -dc
> 
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