From: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
To: Jasper Spaans <jasper@vs19.net>
Cc: Timothy Miller <miller@techsource.com>,
Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk>,
torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Change all occurrences of 'flavour' to 'flavor'
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 12:00:03 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0308081156270.881@chaos> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030808155044.GA12526@spaans.vs19.net>
On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, Jasper Spaans wrote:
> > > > $ egrep -ni 'flavou?r' fs/nfs/inode.c
> > > > 1357: rpc_authflavor_t authflavour;
>
> > However, changing the spelling of a variable name is
> > absurd no matter how you look at it.
>
> Read that line of code again please. Next, imagine writing code in there.
>
> VrGr,
Yes. It's wonderful. Pure poetry to me! It's probably in line
for the Pulitzer prize for literature. I like it.
That said, there probably is a good reason why not to define
a special type for that variable. But, then again, that's not
a spelling matter.
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.4.20 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).
Note 96.31% of all statistics are fiction.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-08 15:59 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 [this message]
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
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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