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by efaref 3403 days ago
Even then I would prefer an explicit comparison:

    if ((a = b) != NULL) ...
I think Rust has a happy medium, where assignment evaluates to (), not the variable (important as this means you don't have an implicit borrow), but the idiom expressed here is usually replaced by:

    if let Some(thing) = fn_that_returns_option_thing() ...