"CONSTANTS are LIBERALS and so always are on the left."

Depending on your personal political views this may or may not be politically correct ... but from the programming point of view it should be dogma.

Whenever you use a constant in a boolean expression ALWAYS put the constant on the left:

if (MAX == nValue)

not

if (nValue == MAX)

because sure as it is always sunning in Seattle someday you'll have to find the bug introduced by (someone else of course)

if (nValue = MAX)

Daniel