Messages in this thread | | | From | David Brownell <> | Subject | Re: coding style for long conditions | Date | Fri, 6 Apr 2007 15:43:28 -0700 |
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On Friday 06 April 2007 3:07 pm, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On Apr 6 2007 15:05, David Brownell wrote: > > > >> but... egads! Linus > >> put spaces before the &&s to line them up nicely! > >> > >> "more in the breach" and all that I guess... > > > >Yeah, nobody likes style nazis. On the other hand, it's rather > >unusual to be the target of style nazism for actually following > >the style guide!! You'd think that maybe the folk objecting to > >that style guide might maybe choose a more direct way to address > >their particular frustrations, eh? :) > > About time... > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_Law
With respect to coding style discussions, "style nazi" happens to be what's called a "term of art".
But if your invocation of Godwin's law helps stop this, I'll be glad.
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