From: Ian Hastie <lkml@ordinal.freeserve.co.uk>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Change all occurrences of 'flavour' to 'flavor'
Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2003 02:17:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200308090217.56224.lkml@ordinal.freeserve.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0308081738380.3739-100000@home.osdl.org>
On Saturday 09 Aug 2003 01:41, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On 9 Aug 2003, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> > Since we appear to be in the silly season...
>
> No, your patch isn't silly, it's EVIL. It fundamentally breaks the notion
> of "grep for usage" by introducing two names to the same thing, without
> having even a good reason (ie no "nice abstraction" thing or anything).
>
> So that's just bad.
>
> In contrast, switching "authflavour" to "authflavor" (to match the type)
> ahs the advantage of _improving_ greppability.
... as long as you remember to misspell the word.
--
Ian.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-09 1:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-07 18:00 Jasper Spaans
2003-08-07 22:37 ` Alan Cox
2003-08-08 0:04 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-08-08 16:54 ` Steven Cole
2003-08-08 5:46 ` [PATCH] Change all occurrences of 'flavour' to 'flavor', torvalds@osdl.org Jasper Spaans
[not found] ` <200308080153.22495.jcwren@jcwren.com>
2003-08-08 5:58 ` [ot] Re: [PATCH] Change all occurrences of 'flavour' to 'flavor' Jasper Spaans
2003-08-08 7:13 ` Jens Axboe
2003-08-08 1:42 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-08-08 6:52 ` Jasper Spaans
2003-08-08 6:57 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-08-08 7:15 ` Jens Axboe
2003-08-08 11:04 ` [OT] " Adrian Bunk
2003-08-08 16:58 ` Svein Ove Aas
2003-08-08 21:51 ` Ian Hastie
2003-08-08 7:33 ` Jasper Spaans
2003-08-08 7:40 ` Jens Axboe
2003-08-08 8:00 ` Jasper Spaans
2003-08-08 8:54 ` Jens Axboe
2003-08-08 7:45 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-08-08 7:07 ` Alexander Winston
2003-08-08 7:31 ` Jasper Spaans
2003-08-08 7:11 ` Tomas Szepe
2003-08-08 15:18 ` Timothy Miller
2003-08-08 15:34 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-08-08 15:48 ` Trond Myklebust
2003-08-08 16:42 ` Gene Heskett
2003-08-08 17:03 ` Jasper Spaans
2003-08-08 17:34 ` Alan Cox
2003-08-08 18:02 ` Gene Heskett
2003-08-08 15:50 ` Jasper Spaans
2003-08-08 16:00 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-08-08 17:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-08-08 17:33 ` Jasper Spaans
2003-08-09 0:24 ` Trond Myklebust
2003-08-09 0:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-08-09 0:45 ` Jasper Spaans
2003-08-09 19:56 ` [PATCH] Fix up fs/nfs/inode.c wrt flavo[u]r Jasper Spaans
2003-08-09 19:51 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-08-09 21:41 ` [PATCH] Fix up fs/nfs/inode.c wrt flavo[u]r, try 2 Jasper Spaans
2003-08-09 1:04 ` [PATCH] Change all occurrences of 'flavour' to 'flavor' Trond Myklebust
2003-08-09 1:17 ` Ian Hastie [this message]
2003-08-09 7:23 ` jw schultz
2003-08-07 20:40 Andries.Brouwer
2003-08-08 8:25 Andries.Brouwer
2004-01-13 13:35 Andries.Brouwer
2004-01-13 13:42 Randal, Phil
2004-01-13 14:07 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-01-13 14:26 Nicholas Berry
2004-01-13 22:46 ` Peter Horton
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