Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261608AbVEDK7F (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 May 2005 06:59:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261612AbVEDK7F (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 May 2005 06:59:05 -0400 Received: from world.rdmcorp.com ([204.225.180.10]:36577 "EHLO mailhost.rdmcorp.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261608AbVEDK7B (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 May 2005 06:59:01 -0400 Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 06:54:48 -0400 (EDT) From: "Robert P. J. Day" X-X-Sender: rpjday@localhost.localdomain To: "Bodo Eggert " <7eggert@gmx.de> cc: Roman Zippel , Adrian Bunk , Andrew Morton , kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jesper Juhl Subject: Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: [2.6 patch] Kconfig: rename "---help---" to "help" in Kconfig files (first part) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <3ZTLT-3D3-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <401Js-1AH-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <401Tf-1Hp-9@gated-at.bofh.it> <402FB-2mN-15@gated-at.bofh.it> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="8323328-164173524-1115204088=:6658" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1608 Lines: 40 This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --8323328-164173524-1115204088=:6658 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT On Tue, 3 May 2005, Bodo Eggert wrote: > Roman Zippel wrote: > > On Tue, 3 May 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > >> IMHO, Kconfig files are quite readable due to this indentation even > >> though only a minority of the entries was using "---help---" even > >> before this patch. > > > > So why exactly has to be removed? Is it ugly? > > IMO yes, it's less readable for me than "help". ?? the main problem with having two alternatives for the same thing (in *any* context) is that it gives beginners a distorted sense of what is acceptable usage. if you accept both "help" and "---help---", then you just *know* that a beginner will notice that and start thinking, "hmmm ... well, if both of those are alright, maybe "--help--" or "-help-" is alright, too. and maybe it's just the leading hyphens that really count, not the trailing hyphens. and maybe ..." kbuild is already over-convoluted as it is. please don't give folks even more redundant ways to do exactly the same thing. rday --8323328-164173524-1115204088=:6658-- - 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/