From: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
To: Linux Kernel List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Those ruddy punctuation fixes
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 11:20:09 -0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030305122008.GA4280@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030305111015.B8883@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 11:10:15AM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> Could we stop fix^wbreaking this stuff please. GCC 3.2.2:
> ...
> include/asm/proc-fns.h:128:39: missing terminating ' character
100% agreed. People really are going too far IMO.
Given that most people will never read those comments, the
effort would be much better spent proof-reading/correcting
documentation than comments.
The "its just a spelling mistake, it cant break the build!"
mantra is also way off base. If you touch a .c/.h file, you
introduce the possibility of breakage.
The cant -> can't pedantry is an example of just how extremely
silly these are getting. Is there really someone who sees
"cant" and doesn't understand what it could mean?
It just pedantic masturbation AFAICS.
Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-05 11:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-05 11:10 Those ruddy punctuation fixes Russell King
2003-03-05 11:22 ` John Bradford
2003-03-05 14:18 ` Mike Dresser
2003-03-06 1:50 ` jw schultz
2003-03-06 9:58 ` Russell King
2003-03-06 10:46 ` John Bradford
2003-03-05 12:20 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2003-03-05 11:37 ` good info on memory management Prasad Kamath
2003-03-05 12:03 ` Terje Eggestad
2003-03-06 8:16 ` Ranjeet Shetye
2003-03-06 3:11 ` Those ruddy punctuation fixes Steven Cole
2003-03-07 1:04 ` Val Henson
2003-03-07 2:44 ` Steven Cole
2003-03-07 3:33 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-03-07 4:02 ` Steven Cole
2003-03-07 5:11 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-03-07 17:04 ` Hans Reiser
[not found] ` <mailman.1047000901.5238.linux-kernel2news@redhat.com>
2003-03-07 3:07 ` Pete Zaitcev
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-03-07 7:16 Dan Kegel
2003-03-07 17:17 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2003-03-07 18:00 ` Dan Kegel
2003-03-07 23:15 ` Alan Cox
2003-03-08 0:52 ` Dave Jones
2003-03-08 0:04 ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-03-08 0:29 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-03-08 1:09 ` Dan Kegel
2003-03-08 2:18 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-03-08 1:08 ` Alan Cox
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