Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S272163AbTHIBFC (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Aug 2003 21:05:02 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S272167AbTHIBFB (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Aug 2003 21:05:01 -0400 Received: from pat.uio.no ([129.240.130.16]:33431 "EHLO pat.uio.no") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S272163AbTHIBEd (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Aug 2003 21:04:33 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16180.18582.867761.522912@charged.uio.no> Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2003 03:04:22 +0200 To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Timothy Miller , Jasper Spaans , Zwane Mwaikambo , Subject: Re: [PATCH] Change all occurrences of 'flavour' to 'flavor' In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under 21.4 (patch 8) "Honest Recruiter" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no From: Trond Myklebust X-MailScanner-Information: This message has been scanned for viruses/spam. Contact postmaster@uio.no if you have questions about this scanning. X-UiO-MailScanner: No virus found Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1206 Lines: 33 >>>>> " " == Linus Torvalds writes: > 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). Right! I fully agree that having 2 names for the same type is bad, although "find -type f | grep flavou?r" would be a quite adequate way of matching both spellings. The point is, though, that I could have written rpc_authflavor_t f; and nobody would have cared or complained about grepability. Anybody who claims that they have problems reading the code due to the difference between US and British spelling of the same variable is in reality engaged in a completely different type of crusade. One that doesn't deserve attention... Cheers, Trond - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/