Is switching an if-statement around bad practice? [closed]

Question

I can remember being told that having an if statement like if(10 == $myVariable) is a bad practice. However, why is this a bad practice and what is its name? (I can vaguely remember that it has a specific name).

Answer 1

its good practice because of accidental typos

if (10 = $myVariable)  

will not compile where as

if ($myVariable = 10)

will and make the if statement true, and also set $myVariable to 10

is a fairly easy to make, and hard to spot error.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoda_conditions