>>I always use the short form personnally [c = !(a=b)], but I recently had to use the form you noted above because I was doing training and the other guy finds my "shortcuts" too hard to understand.
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>Too bad. The effort they'd invest to understand why does this work would return tenfold once they realize they've become more profficient.

To their credit, I must add that this person's job is not supposed to be a programmer; the original idea was to allow him to be able to write, understand and maintain a small application. Unfortunatly, it has become more than just "a small application", and my help is somewhat required now.