Messages in this thread | | | From | Ian Hastie <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Change all occurrences of 'flavour' to 'flavor' | Date | Sat, 9 Aug 2003 02:17:54 +0100 |
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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.
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