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From: lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen)
To: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [7234] Use a more natural order
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:53:08 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090423185308.GH3795@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1Lx3gB-0002ko-Iq@cvs.savannah.gnu.org>

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 06:29:47PM +0000, Blue Swirl wrote:
> Revision: 7234
>           http://svn.sv.gnu.org/viewvc/?view=rev&root=qemu&revision=7234
> Author:   blueswir1
> Date:     2009-04-23 18:29:47 +0000 (Thu, 23 Apr 2009)
> Log Message:
> -----------
> Use a more natural order

It may be more natural, but it is also less safe.

After all

if (0 = x) {

fails compile, while

if (x = 0) {

compiles silently even when you didn't mean that.

Some people also think month/day/year is more natural as a date format,
but it is confusing and impractical to actually use.

-- 
Len Sorensen

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-04-23 18:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-23 18:29 [Qemu-devel] [7234] Use a more natural order Blue Swirl
2009-04-23 18:39 ` Andreas Färber
2009-04-23 18:43   ` Blue Swirl
2009-04-23 18:53 ` Lennart Sorensen [this message]
2009-04-23 19:01   ` Blue Swirl
2009-04-23 19:10     ` Lennart Sorensen
2009-04-23 19:15       ` Glauber Costa
2009-04-23 19:39         ` Blue Swirl
2009-04-23 19:59           ` Anthony Liguori
2009-04-23 20:20             ` Blue Swirl
2009-04-23 19:57         ` Anthony Liguori
2009-04-23 19:59           ` Lennart Sorensen
2009-04-23 20:03             ` Anthony Liguori
2009-04-23 20:54               ` Lennart Sorensen
2009-04-23 21:15                 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-04-23 22:13                   ` Jamie Lokier
2009-04-24  0:10                     ` Anthony Liguori
2009-04-24  8:18                 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-04-24 12:14                   ` Anthony Liguori
2009-04-24 12:32                   ` Stefan Weil
2009-04-23 19:31       ` Blue Swirl
2009-04-23 19:44         ` Lennart Sorensen
2009-04-23 22:46           ` Jamie Lokier
2009-04-24 18:07             ` Lennart Sorensen
2009-04-24 18:58               ` Nathan Froyd
2009-04-23 19:12   ` M. Warner Losh
2009-04-23 19:28     ` Lennart Sorensen
2009-04-23 19:41       ` M. Warner Losh
2009-04-23 19:55         ` Lennart Sorensen
2009-04-23 20:07           ` M. Warner Losh
2009-04-23 21:01             ` Lennart Sorensen
2009-04-23 23:02           ` Jamie Lokier
2009-04-23 22:52       ` Jamie Lokier
2009-04-23 19:37   ` [Qemu-devel] " Jan Kiszka
2009-04-23 19:46     ` Lennart Sorensen
2009-04-23 21:30       ` malc
2009-04-23 22:10       ` Jamie Lokier
2009-04-24  8:09   ` [Qemu-devel] " Gerd Hoffmann

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