From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jarek Poplawski Subject: Re: warning: massive change to conditional coding style in net? Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:39:55 +0100 Message-ID: <4B141F8B.4040001@gmail.com> References: <4B13A025.7000103@gmail.com> <20091130134414.GB7114@ff.dom.local> <20091130135435.3895a437@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: William Allen Simpson , Linux Kernel Developers , Linux Kernel Network Developers To: Alan Cox Return-path: Received: from mail-bw0-f227.google.com ([209.85.218.227]:39873 "EHLO mail-bw0-f227.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752722AbZK3TkR (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:40:17 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20091130135435.3895a437@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Alan Cox wrote, On 11/30/2009 02:54 PM: >>> Miller (with Perches) changed hundreds (thousands?) of these to >>> trailing form. This results in a number of hilarious examples -- >>> lines with both leading and trailing, lines with only &&, etc. A >>> small sample for illustration: >> Yes, it's even enough to make a grown man laugh.... > > IMHO for left to right languages dangly bits want to be on the right, > because that is where your eyes are when you hit the end of the previous > line, so the dangly bit is already in your line of vision and probably > even in focus. Of course this is right. Plus "IMHO" "habit is the second nature", so riding the same side of the road helps, even if it's the wrong side. ;-) Jarek P.