From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 0/5] Patches to avoid reporting conversion changes. Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 11:06:45 -0700 Message-ID: <86ljcnclvu.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> References: <874ojbqnry.fsf@jondo.cante.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Jari Aalto X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Apr 16 20:06:53 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O2pwK-0003Gm-NY for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Apr 2010 20:06:53 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758152Ab0DPSGq (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Apr 2010 14:06:46 -0400 Received: from red.stonehenge.com ([208.79.95.2]:34358 "EHLO red.stonehenge.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757742Ab0DPSGq (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Apr 2010 14:06:46 -0400 Received: by red.stonehenge.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id F3F84CF5F; Fri, 16 Apr 2010 11:06:45 -0700 (PDT) x-mayan-date: Long count = 12.19.17.5.0; tzolkin = 12 Ahau; haab = 13 Pop In-Reply-To: <874ojbqnry.fsf@jondo.cante.net> (Jari Aalto's message of "Fri, 16 Apr 2010 21:02:09 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (berkeley-unix) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: >>>>> "Jari" == Jari Aalto writes: Jari> if ( $OS_ERROR ) ... Right, but without looking, is it $OS_ERROR or $OSERROR? That's the problem. You're trading a list of single punctuation characters, pretty unambiguous, for things that could have been named a dozen different ways each. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/ for Smalltalk and Seaside discussion