Stupidest Programming Mistakes

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Originally Posted by chakorules

Burns me ALL this time....don't forget to use DOUBLE equal signs....

This is why I always write the constant first, when comparing equality between a constant and a variable:

if (1 == variable)
{
  /* do something */
}

Then if I inadvertently use an assignment rather than a comparison, it's a compile-time error (can't assign a value to a constant).