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From: Stefan Sperling <stsp@elego.de>
To: "Randal L. Schwartz" <merlyn@stonehenge.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, subversion@elego.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow multiple tag and branch directories in git-svnimport
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 12:24:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070822102415.GA24305@jack.stsp.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86wsvook5s.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com>

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On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 10:46:23AM -0700, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
> Stefan> Ouch, just noticed it's a bad idea to try to initialise
> Stefan> an array with a scalar. Sorry :-/
> 
> That's completely normal.  Perl predictably promotes the single scalar to an
> array of one element.  I wouldn't have even noticed it in a detailed code
> review, since it's so normal to do that.
> 
> In fact, the parens that you added do *not* make it a list.  The parens
> are purely for precedence

> So, your parens are not only uncommon, they are also completely ineffective,
> similar to replacing 2 + 3 with (2) + (3) :)

Thanks for clarifying. Prior to hacking on git-svnimport
my perl "skills" (if any) were strictly read-only.
So I'm quite a noob wrt perl.
Feel free to nit the patch further :)

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      reply	other threads:[~2007-08-22 10:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-21 17:08 [PATCH] Allow multiple tag and branch directories in git-svnimport Stefan Sperling
2007-08-21 17:38 ` Stefan Sperling
2007-08-21 17:46   ` Randal L. Schwartz
2007-08-22 10:24     ` Stefan Sperling [this message]

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