From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: sam@ravnborg.org, hch@infradead.org, akpm@osdl.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, aia21@cantab.net,
len.brown@intel.com
Subject: Re: [patch 1/1] consolidate TRUE and FALSE
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 18:49:46 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060316184946.GX27946@ftp.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060316101220.67f4f33c.rdunlap@xenotime.net>
On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 10:12:20AM -0800, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 18:00:47 +0000 Al Viro wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 06:41:12PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> > > I assume that when you are not used to see 'bool', 'true' and 'false'
> > > then they hurt the eye, but when used to it it looks natural.
> >
> > Five words: kernel is written in C.
> >
> > Not in Pascal. Not in C++. Not in Algol. "When used to (something
> > non-idiomatic in C) it becomes natural" is not a valid argument.
>
> C (C99) now includes booleans. Are we stuck pre-C99?
TRUE and FALSE are not those. Your point is...?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-16 18:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-16 10:01 [patch 1/1] consolidate TRUE and FALSE akpm
2006-03-16 10:28 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2006-03-16 10:42 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-16 19:55 ` Nicholas Miell
2006-03-16 19:55 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-03-16 10:36 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-03-16 16:01 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-03-16 16:29 ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-03-16 16:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-03-16 16:36 ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-03-16 16:36 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-03-16 16:42 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2006-03-16 16:50 ` Al Viro
[not found] ` <2c0942db0603160905v26011d8dx1e64967b2eb4deac@mail.gmail.com>
2006-03-16 17:11 ` Al Viro
2006-03-16 18:50 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2006-03-16 18:53 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2006-03-16 19:59 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-03-16 22:35 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2006-03-16 16:42 ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-03-16 16:39 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2006-03-16 17:41 ` Sam Ravnborg
2006-03-16 18:00 ` Al Viro
2006-03-16 18:12 ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-03-16 18:49 ` Al Viro [this message]
2006-03-16 18:58 ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-03-16 18:52 ` Sam Ravnborg
2006-03-16 21:17 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-03-16 21:28 ` Joshua Hudson
2006-03-16 23:53 ` David Wagner
2006-03-16 17:09 ` Xavier Bestel
2006-03-16 16:49 ` Al Viro
2006-03-16 21:26 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-17 22:43 ` Xavier Bestel
2006-03-17 22:56 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-18 21:57 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-03-19 11:41 ` Xavier Bestel
2006-03-16 17:07 ` Greg KH
2006-03-16 17:13 ` Greg KH
2006-03-20 14:46 ` Richard Knutsson
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