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Re: [PATCH] diff-cache path restriction fix.

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IMIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Date
May 25, 2005, 08:31 UTC
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<20050525083143.GA27025@elte.hu>
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* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
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> Hmm. According to that logic, ">" and ">=" is superfluous.
> 
> Also, what language do you actually speak? Every human language I know 
> (admittedly, apart from Finnish they are all related) tends to say 
> things like "if you have more than four children, you're in trouble", 
> rather than saying "if four is less than the number of children you 
> have".

[ add Hungarian to that short list - there it's a pretty natural thing to say "if four is less than the number of ..." in everyday life :-| Interestingly, having an insanely complex wacko weird language helps kids learn abstraction early, and results in an unusually high per capita proportion of scientists. If China adopted Finnish as a second language the global domination of the US would be history in 50 years ;-) ]

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Message 16 of 17 in “diff-cache path restriction fix.”
  1. diff-cache path restriction fix.Junio C Hamano, May 25, 2005
  2. Linus TorvaldsMay 25, 2005
  3. Junio C HamanoMay 25, 2005
  4. Linus TorvaldsMay 25, 2005
  5. Junio C HamanoMay 25, 2005
  6. Russ AllberyMay 25, 2005
  7. Junio C HamanoMay 25, 2005
  8. Linus TorvaldsMay 25, 2005
  9. Junio C HamanoMay 25, 2005
  10. Ingo MolnarMay 25, 2005
  11. Linus TorvaldsMay 25, 2005
  12. Junio C HamanoMay 25, 2005
  13. Thomas GlanzmannMay 25, 2005
  14. Matthias UrlichsMay 25, 2005
  15. [OT] if (4 < number_of_children) you're in troubleJunio C Hamano, May 28, 2005
  16. Ingo MolnarMay 25, 2005
  17. Florian WeimerMay 25, 2005

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