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From: walt <wa1ter@myrealbox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] glossary: explain "master" and "origin"
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 15:33:12 -0800
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walt wrote:
> J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> [...]
>> 	Most projects have one upstream
>> 	project which they track.  This is is the branch used for
>> 	tracking that project...
> 
> s/This/'origin'/
> 
> Lordy, I think many of the world's problems could be solved just
> by forbidding the use of pronouns entirely!

Now that I've had another beer, it occurs to me that a 'pronoun'
is nothing more or less than a 'pointer' to a noun.

Well!  We all know that pointers are a major source of bugs in
C code.  Is it possible that lint could be taught to detect
ambiguous pronouns in everyday speech?