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From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Subject: Re: coding style for long conditions
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2007 15:43:28 -0700
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On Friday 06 April 2007 3:07 pm, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> 
> On Apr 6 2007 15:05, David Brownell wrote:
> >
> >> but... egads!  Linus 
> >> put spaces before the &&s to line them up nicely!
> >> 
> >> "more in the breach" and all that I guess...
> >
> >Yeah, nobody likes style nazis.  On the other hand, it's rather
> >unusual to be the target of style nazism for actually following
> >the style guide!!  You'd think that maybe the folk objecting to
> >that style guide might maybe choose a more direct way to address
> >their particular frustrations, eh?  :)
> 
> About time...
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_Law

With respect to coding style discussions, "style nazi" happens to be
what's called a "term of art".  

But if your invocation of Godwin's law helps stop this, I'll be glad.