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"Yoda" Conditions

Here’s a creative idea I’d never considered before.  I’ve written code like this, but accidentally, and then it looks wrong so I change it back.  Here’s a quick example:

if ( 42 == myInt )  as opposed to  if ( myInt == 42 )

The former may be better to use because occasionally we all forget to put that second “=” in there, and we accidentally turn our comparison operator into an assignment operator.  Compilers will complain if you try to assign a value to “42”, but not if you try to assign 42 to a variable, and that’ll make it easier to catch your mistake.