Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755469AbZF1Rst (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Jun 2009 13:48:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751865AbZF1Rsl (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Jun 2009 13:48:41 -0400 Received: from 136-022.dsl.LABridge.com ([206.117.136.22]:1510 "EHLO mail.perches.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752054AbZF1Rsl (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Jun 2009 13:48:41 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/62] Remove unnecessary semicolons From: Joe Perches To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, trivial@kernel.org, Andrew Morton In-Reply-To: <20090628104332.482ee449@infradead.org> References: <20090628101159.4c35a4db@infradead.org> <1246209365.13673.5.camel@Joe-Laptop.home> <20090628104332.482ee449@infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 10:48:33 -0700 Message-Id: <1246211313.13673.11.camel@Joe-Laptop.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.26.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 958 Lines: 27 On Sun, 2009-06-28 at 10:43 -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 10:16:05 -0700 > Joe Perches wrote: > > On Sun, 2009-06-28 at 10:11 -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > can you improve your descriptions please? > > > to at least include the why for a change, not just the how and > > > what... > > Is any part of "Remove unnecessary semicolons" unclear? > > What would you prefer? > > your sentence addresses the what question, no the why question > or in business words: whats the value proposition Are any of these better? Saving the world, one byte at a time... Because they're unnecessary... Because they cause visual stalls when humans parse them... Just for fun... ? -- 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/