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Why using Yoda conditions you should probably not be

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Grégoire Paris wrote down his opinion on why he dislikes Yoda conditions.

So how do Yoda conditions work? Well it is basically a knee-jerk reaction you have to develop: whenever you write a condition, put the operand that cannot be assigned on the left. This should give you an error message if you make an assignment when you actually meant to make a comparison.

https://dev.to/greg0ire/why-using-yoda-conditions-you-should-probably-not

Personally, I'm not a big fan of Yoda conditions either. My feeling is the the cost of decreased readability is just too high for the small value that Yoda conditions bring to the table.

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