Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] NET: fix wrong English expression in comments | From | Valdis.Kletnieks@vt ... | Date | Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:22:58 -0500 |
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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. [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |