Andreas Ericsson <ae@xxxxxx> writes: > ... For me it's the other > way around, so I think of the above as "if it doesn't compare to this > or that, then do this", but the "are equal to" meaning of "compare" > isn't intuitive to me as I spent the first several years of my > english-speaking life using "compare" exclusively as a verb. <offtopic> I think I should have said that "I force me to pronounce" and I am trying to say the same thing as you said. xxxcmp(a, b) literally is "compare a and b and give me the result"; the result coming back as "true" when a and b are different is counter-intuitive and I think it is so to everybody, not limited to non-English speaking people. That's why I force me to ignore the etymology of the "cmp" in the function name and call that "a and b differs" or "subtract b from a" depending on the context. By the way, I think "a compares to b" is also a verb, not just "i compare a and b and found these differences". </offtopic> - 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