Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S272235AbTHIBUF (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Aug 2003 21:20:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S272257AbTHIBUF (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Aug 2003 21:20:05 -0400 Received: from smtp-node1.eclipse.net.uk ([212.104.129.76]:5126 "EHLO smtp1.ex.eclipse.net.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S272235AbTHIBR7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Aug 2003 21:17:59 -0400 From: Ian Hastie 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 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200308090217.56224.lkml@ordinal.freeserve.co.uk> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 824 Lines: 23 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. - 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/