Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:34:31 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Change all occurrences of 'flavour' to 'flavor' |
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On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, Timothy Miller wrote:
> > > Jasper Spaans wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 09:42:37PM -0400, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote: > > > > > >>>It changes all occurrences of 'flavour' to 'flavor' in the complete tree; > >>>I've just comiled all affected files (that is, the config resulting from > >>>make allyesconfig minus already broken stuff) succesfully on i386. > >> > >>Arrrgh! You can't be serious! > > > > > > Yes, I am bloody serious; this patch might look purely cosmetic at first > > sight.. yet, there's a technical reason for at least one part of it. Grep > > and see the horror: > > > > $ egrep -ni 'flavou?r' fs/nfs/inode.c > > [snip] > > 1357: rpc_authflavor_t authflavour; > > [snip] > > > Ah, for a moment, I was worried that someone was talking about text in > comments. > > Yes, when it comes to spelling of words in variable and type names, I > think it would be a good idea to be consistent. > > What is Linus's preferred spelling? Let's use that. >
It's a little past April Fool's day. What are you guys smoking? Next, you'll want to change all the 'i's to 'y's and add 'ing'.
Certainly one might want to change:
int TheVariableThatWillBeUsedAsACounter;
to.. int i;
However, changing the spelling of a variable name is absurd no matter how you look at it.
Cheers, Dick Johnson Penguin : Linux version 2.4.20 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips). Note 96.31% of all statistics are fiction.
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