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SubjectRe: [PATCH] NET: fix wrong English expression in comments
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On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:11:19 +1030, David Newall said:
> Daolong Wang wrote:
> > The patch will make sense for some people. I was puzzled about the
> > double-negative for quite a while.
> >
>
> "Don't add nothing," is not a colloquialism; it's just bad grammar. The
> meaning is that you must not add no thing, therefore that you must add
> something. It is a common error amongst English speakers, even amongst
> those who speak good, but. :-)

Those of us who have worked with weakly-typed languages who have coded
stuff like 'X + 0.0' to cast X from string to floating point know all
too well that sometimes, adding nothing is in fact what you want to do.
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