From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it>,
Harry Wei <harryxiyou@gmail.com>,
Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com>,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] coding-style.rst: Add fallthrough as an emacs keyword
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2020 21:26:13 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e8c0df0e7adb53c2e16f5a4f85de9f5a0f627b4f.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200315021222.GU22433@bombadil.infradead.org>
On Sat, 2020-03-14 at 19:12 -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 02:13:59PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > I've no idea how to remove the infinite monkeys jibe from the chinese translation
>
> I don't think you should. That's part of Linus' original text, and I
> don't think it deters contributors.
>
> > -uses are less than desirable (in fact, they are worse than random
> > -typing - an infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs would never
> > -make a good program).
> > +uses are less than desirable.
It's silly, and moderately offensive,
unrepresentative of the softer, modern Linus.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-15 4:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-14 21:13 [PATCH] coding-style.rst: Add fallthrough as an emacs keyword Joe Perches
2020-03-15 2:12 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-03-15 4:26 ` Joe Perches [this message]
2020-03-20 23:31 ` Jonathan Corbet
2020-03-20 23:45 ` Joe Perches
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