Hi, On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, Sean wrote: > On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 09:50:11 +0200 (CEST) > Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote: > > > Could you stop it already? > > Well i'd like to offer some support for David. > > In English you'd never say "if 10 is less than the number of girls" > you'd always say "if the number of girls is greater than 10". > > Why on earth would you ever write C code different than the way you'd > express the same question in natural language? Maybe this is only common > in English and other languages are different; that would explain why this > seems more natural to some. In this case, though, "English" is utterly, totally irrelevant. The question is a mathematical one, and thus, the solution is a mathematical one. So, in essence, if you do not understand a conditional with a constant on the left side, just because it happens to honour the mathematical view of "left is small, right is large", you do not stand a chance of understanding the formula, right? > > Git's source code is very clean and readable, even if there are inversions > > you might not be used to. > > Not to me. I find it very annoying to have to figure out what > "if ( 10 < x ) ..." is really trying to do. Oh, come on! You cannot possibly spend even _seconds_ on this particular construct! 'nough said. Ciao, Dscho - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html