You should never lint for Yoda conditions.
If you have a linter, you should lint for assignment inside conditionals.
Yoda conditions are a convention that prevents you from accidentally assigning when you meant to compare. A linter is just a better tool for this.
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@WomanCorn Do people really run linters configured to complain about e.g. if (null == foo)? Like pretty much all my code would fail that; I write the checks that way out of habit. Or are you saying the linter complains if you write if (foo == null) and makes you reverse it? Boo on that if so, and agree with your suggested fix.
@flats yeah. The project I'm on is using the WordPress coding standards and they demand
If ( 0 === $count )
and lint for that too. So annoying.