Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 5:13 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >>> On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 5:00 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> What is a Yoda condition? >>> >>> --- >>> Using if (constant == variable) instead of if (variable == constant), >>> like if (4 == foo). >>> >>> Because it's like saying "if blue is the sky" or "if tall is the man". >> >> That is an invalid analogy, as the sentences do not make sense. >> >> A much better explanation I heard on this list is that people do not >> say "If 1 is smaller than the number of your wives, you have a big >> problem". >> >> I actually was not asking why people find the convention to visually >> align comparison with number lines unusual. We discussed this style >> long time ago on this list. I haven't heard the "Yoda condtion" >> expression and was asking about the "Yoda" part. > > It's popular culture. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoda I know who Yoda is. What I was puzzled with was what it has to do with "if blue is the sky" (which is a bad analogy for "if (0 < len)" anyway)? -- 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