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From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>,
	Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/7] Bisect: factorise "bisect_write_*" functions.
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 00:36:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <471E7766.6000303@op5.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v640x7a4n.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Sort of offtopic, but is "factorise" a correct verb here?  I
> thought "factorise" is to express a non prime number as the
> product of prime numbers.
> 

It's the reverse of expanding brackets, like so:
2x² + x - 3 = (2x + 3)(x - 1)

> "refactor" is the act of splitting and merging pieces of
> functions for better reuse, isn't it?
> 

Yes.

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Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson@op5.se
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-10-23 22:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-14 12:29 [PATCH 4/7] Bisect: factorise "bisect_write_*" functions Christian Couder
2007-10-23 22:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-10-23 22:29   ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-10-23 22:36   ` Andreas Ericsson [this message]
2007-10-24  4:09   ` Christian Couder

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