public inbox for linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: "J.A. Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: Oliver Xymoron <oxymoron@waste.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, wli@holomorphy.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] for_each_zone / for_each_pgdat
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 17:46:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020416154608.GA2694@werewolf.able.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L.0204161156330.1960-100000@imladris.surriel.com>


On 2002.04.16 Rik van Riel wrote:
>On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Oliver Xymoron wrote:
>> On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> > On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> > >
>> > > Which requires the user to use something like
>> > >
>> > > 	for_each_zone(zone) {
>> > > 		...
>> > > 	} end_zone;
>
>> Ugh. If we're going to use such ugly things, it would be nice if they were
>> do_zone/while_zone instead of being suggestive of a for loop.
>
>Ummm, it _is_ a for loop.
>

Perhaps a silly change like

for_all_zone -> forall_zone
for_all_page -> forall_page

changes the point of view of some people. Some languages implement a 'forall'
iteration. And looks better...

-- 
J.A. Magallon                           #  Let the source be with you...        
mailto:jamagallon@able.es
Mandrake Linux release 8.3 (Cooker) for i586
Linux werewolf 2.4.19-pre6-jam2 #2 SMP Tue Apr 16 00:29:36 CEST 2002 i686

  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-04-16 15:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-04-15 15:49 [PATCH] for_each_zone / for_each_pgdat Rik van Riel
2002-04-15 20:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-04-15 20:58   ` Rik van Riel
2002-04-15 21:08     ` Linus Torvalds
2002-04-15 21:17       ` Linus Torvalds
2002-04-15 23:20         ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-04-16  0:44           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-04-16  1:30             ` Mike Fedyk
2002-04-16  4:27               ` Rik van Riel
2002-04-16 13:36                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-04-16 13:44               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-04-16 16:39                 ` Mike Fedyk
2002-04-16 14:00               ` Bill Davidsen
2002-04-16 18:19                 ` Mike Fedyk
2002-04-16  4:22             ` Marcelo Tosatti
2002-04-16 14:50         ` Oliver Xymoron
2002-04-16 14:56           ` Rik van Riel
2002-04-16 15:26             ` Oliver Xymoron
2002-04-16 15:46             ` J.A. Magallon [this message]
2002-04-15 21:18       ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-04-15 21:47       ` Rik van Riel
2002-04-15 22:19     ` Martin J. Bligh
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-04-12  0:25 Rik van Riel
2002-04-18  9:41 ` Pavel Machek
2002-04-11 18:23 Rik van Riel
2002-04-11 18:54 ` Rik van Riel
2002-04-12  0:07 ` Rik van Riel

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20020416154608.GA2694@werewolf.able.es \
    --to=jamagallon@able.es \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=oxymoron@waste.org \
    --cc=riel@conectiva.com.br \
    --cc=torvalds@transmeta.com \
    --cc=wli@holomorphy.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox