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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: CodingGuidelines Perl amendment
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2013 10:16:21 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vehgtcnpm.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vca5gvx6.fsf@lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Wed, 06 Feb 2013 13:05:25 -0500")

Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

> On Wed, 06 Feb 2013 08:29:30 -0800 Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote: 
>
> JCH> Is it ever (as opposed to "not always") possible to omit braces?
>
> Oh yes!  Not that I recommend it, and I'm not even going to touch on
> Perl Golf :)
>
> JCH> It sounds as if we encourage the use of statement modifiers, which
> JCH> certainly is not what I want to see.
>
> Yup.  I think I captured that in the patch, but please feel free to
> revise it after applying or throw it back to me.

I'd suggest to just drop that "try to write without braces" entirely.

> JCH> Incidentally, your sentence is a good example of where use of
> JCH> statement modifiers is appropriate: $youmust is rarely true.
>
> I was trying to be funny, honestly.  But OK; reworded.

It wasn't a useful guidance, but it _was_ funny.  

  reply	other threads:[~2013-02-06 18:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 78+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-29 19:13 [PATCH] git-send-email: add ~/.authinfo parsing Michal Nazarewicz
2013-01-29 19:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-29 21:08   ` [PATCHv2] " Michal Nazarewicz
2013-01-29 22:38     ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-30  0:03       ` [PATCHv3] " Michal Nazarewicz
2013-01-30  0:34         ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-30  7:43   ` [PATCH] " Jeff King
2013-01-30 15:57     ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-31 15:23       ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-01-31 19:38         ` Jeff King
2013-02-02 11:57           ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-02-03 19:41             ` Jeff King
2013-02-04 16:40               ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-02-04 16:42               ` [PATCH 1/3] Add contrib/credentials/netrc with GPG support Ted Zlatanov
2013-02-04 16:57                 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-02-04 17:24                 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-02-04 18:33                   ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-02-04 19:06                     ` Junio C Hamano
2013-02-04 19:40                       ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-02-04 23:10                         ` Junio C Hamano
2013-02-06 15:10                           ` CodingGuidelines Perl amendment (was: [PATCH 1/3] Add contrib/credentials/netrc with GPG support) Ted Zlatanov
2013-02-06 16:29                             ` CodingGuidelines Perl amendment Junio C Hamano
2013-02-06 17:45                               ` demerphq
2013-02-06 18:08                                 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-02-06 18:14                                 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-02-06 18:18                                   ` demerphq
2013-02-06 17:55                               ` [PATCH] Update CodingGuidelines for Perl 5 Ted Zlatanov
2013-02-06 18:05                               ` CodingGuidelines Perl amendment Ted Zlatanov
2013-02-06 18:16                                 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2013-02-06 18:27                                   ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-02-06 18:25                                 ` demerphq
2013-02-06 18:35                                   ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-02-06 18:44                                     ` demerphq
2013-02-06 18:54                                       ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-02-06 19:37                                         ` Junio C Hamano
2013-02-06 19:49                                           ` [PATCH v2] Update CodingGuidelines for Perl 5 Ted Zlatanov
2013-02-04 16:42               ` [PATCH 2/3] Skip blank and commented lines in contrib/credentials/netrc Ted Zlatanov
2013-02-04 16:43               ` [PATCH 3/3] Fix contrib/credentials/netrc minor issues: exit quietly; use 3-parameter open; etc Ted Zlatanov
2013-02-04 17:27                 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-02-04 18:41                   ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-02-04 16:33     ` [PATCH] git-send-email: add ~/.authinfo parsing Michal Nazarewicz
2013-02-04 17:00       ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-02-04 20:10         ` Jeff King
2013-02-04 20:28           ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-02-04 20:59             ` Jeff King
2013-02-04 21:08               ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-02-04 21:22                 ` Jeff King
2013-02-04 21:41                   ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-02-05 23:10     ` Junio C Hamano
2013-02-06  8:11       ` Matthieu Moy
2013-02-06 14:53         ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-02-06 15:10           ` Matthieu Moy
2013-02-06 15:58             ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-02-06 16:41               ` Matthieu Moy
2013-02-06 17:40                 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-02-06 18:11                 ` [PATCH 0/4] Allow contrib/ to use Git's Makefile for perl code Matthieu Moy
2013-02-06 18:11                   ` [PATCH 1/4] Makefile: extract perl-related rules to make them available from other dirs Matthieu Moy
2013-02-07 19:16                     ` Junio C Hamano
2013-02-06 18:11                   ` [PATCH 2/4] perl.mak: introduce $(GIT_ROOT_DIR) to allow inclusion from other directories Matthieu Moy
2013-02-06 18:11                   ` [PATCH 3/4] Makefile: factor common configuration in git-default-config.mak Matthieu Moy
2013-02-07 19:28                     ` Junio C Hamano
2013-02-08 17:05                       ` Matthieu Moy
2013-02-08 17:31                         ` [PATCH 1/2] Makefile: make script-related rules usable from subdirectories Matthieu Moy
2013-02-08 17:31                           ` [PATCH 2/2] git-remote-mediawiki: use toplevel's Makefile Matthieu Moy
2013-02-06 18:11                   ` [PATCH 4/4] git-remote-mediawiki: use Git's Makefile to build the script Matthieu Moy
2013-02-07 19:28                     ` Junio C Hamano
2013-02-08  4:28                       ` Jeff King
2013-02-08 17:34                         ` Matthieu Moy
2013-02-08 17:43                           ` Jeff King
2013-02-08 18:13                             ` Junio C Hamano
2013-02-08 18:15                               ` Jeff King
2013-02-06 21:57               ` [PATCH] git-send-email: add ~/.authinfo parsing Jeff King
2013-02-06 23:12                 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-02-07  7:08                   ` Matthieu Moy
2013-02-07 14:30                     ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-02-06 13:26       ` Michal Nazarewicz
2013-02-06 14:47         ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-01-30 15:03   ` Ted Zlatanov

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