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From: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
To: "Jonathan Neuschäfer" <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net>
Cc: QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	QEMU Trivial <qemu-trivial@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] CODING_STYLE: Fix a typo ("Many a flamewar")
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2016 15:14:45 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFEAcA8z+inpOA25CEF3YRVzS7ShGveoPYJUem8bGB7zAmyttQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160929204647.23526-1-j.neuschaefer@gmx.net>

On 29 September 2016 at 13:46, Jonathan Neuschäfer
<j.neuschaefer@gmx.net> wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net>
> ---
>  CODING_STYLE | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/CODING_STYLE b/CODING_STYLE
> index e7fde15..a03a994 100644
> --- a/CODING_STYLE
> +++ b/CODING_STYLE
> @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ patches before submitting.
>  Of course, the most important aspect in any coding style is whitespace.
>  Crusty old coders who have trouble spotting the glasses on their noses
>  can tell the difference between a tab and eight spaces from a distance
> -of approximately fifteen parsecs.  Many a flamewar have been fought and
> +of approximately fifteen parsecs.  Many flamewars have been fought and
>  lost on this issue.

Should be "Many a flamewar has been fought and lost".
(This is slightly poetic phrasing but it has a nice ring to it;
the complement does have to be singular, not plural, though.)

thanks
-- PMM

  reply	other threads:[~2016-09-29 22:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-29 20:46 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] CODING_STYLE: Fix a typo ("Many a flamewar") Jonathan Neuschäfer
2016-09-29 22:14 ` Peter Maydell [this message]
2016-09-29 23:38   ` Jonathan Neuschäfer
2016-09-30  0:04     ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] CODING_STYLE: Fix a typo ("have" vs. "has") Jonathan Neuschäfer
2016-09-30  0:29       ` Peter Maydell
2016-10-08  8:12       ` Michael Tokarev

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