== Why is this an issue?

A statement without side effects, such as creating an object without assigning its reference to a variable, is useless, and must have been a mistake on the developer's part. 


== Resources

* https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/482[MITRE, CWE-482] - Comparing instead of Assigning

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== Implementation Specification
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=== Message

Refactor or remove this statement which has no side-effects.


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== Comments And Links
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=== on 4 Jun 2015, 12:01:48 Linda Martin wrote:
Such rule is covered by PyLint (\http://pylint-messages.wikidot.com/messages:w0104) and Google Closure (JSC_USELESS_CODE : \https://developers.google.com/closure/compiler/docs/error-ref).

=== on 5 Jun 2015, 12:10:19 Ann Campbell wrote:
looks like I forgot to assign this back to you for review [~linda.martin]

=== on 11 Jun 2015, 08:18:21 Linda Martin wrote:
OK!


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