>   I have always disliked that "trick" because it breaks the logical way
> to "read" the line. Nobody says "if zero is equal to this value". The
> common expression is "if this value is equal to zero".

I mostly agree.  When I seen that trick, I also thought that it was not
very "natural", being the reverse of "this equals that".

However, there are many areas were programming require some kind
of backwards-thinking or even worse, so that's quite benign.

All in all, I don't recommend the trick or even think I'm gonna
use it myself, it was mostly an example of a small trick that
implies a little thinking, and I was wondering if there were any
other small programming tricks of that kind.

Fabien.

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