On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 02:54:29PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > On Tue, 16 Feb 2010, Heiko Voigt wrote: > > > >> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 03:00:47PM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > >> > What do you expect from academia? School and real life are still too > >> > often disconnected. > >> > >> If you want to offend people that try to help out in real life. This is > >> exactly the kind of comment that does it. > > > > Because you think that I'm not giving my own time helping people solving > > real life issues? If so I'd suggest you do a quick background check on > > myself. > > I don't think Heiko is saying he was offended by you, but is saying he was > offended by me saying "Don't they teach this in schools anymore?" I was > simply curious about the answer to that question. If they don't teach C, > it is not Heiko's fault---no need to get offended. I admit that I did go > "Huh? Never repeat? What's the point?" when I first saw the idiom. It was actually the combination of both ;) But I am glad we could sort this out. I simply had the same thought as you when I saw this first and then confused it with the typical sleep(0) you use for forcing thread switches. BTW, we had a course of C but for macros they stopped at "type them uppercase and try to avoid them when possible". Everything else is learning by experience. cheers Heiko -- 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