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Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] CodingGuildlines: allow the use of bool

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Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Jul 16, 2025, 04:46 UTC
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On Wed, Jul 16, 2025 at 12:38:27AM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
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> On Tue, Jul 15, 2025 at 02:52:50PM +0100, Phillip Wood wrote:
> 
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] CodingGuildlines: allow the use of bool
> 
> I was lots of discussion about grammar elsewhere, but nobody seems to
> have mentioned "Guildlines" instead of "Guidelines". :)
s/was/saw/, obviously.

Surely somebody has coined a name for the law that any statement pointing out a typo or grammatical issue is vastly more likely to contain one itself.

-Peff
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Message 13 of 33 in “C99: declare bool experiment a success”
  1. 0/3 C99: declare bool experiment a successPhillip Wood, Jul 14, 2025
  2. 1/3 CodingGuildlines: allow the use of boolPhillip Wood, Jul 14, 2025
  3. Junio C HamanoJul 14, 2025
  4. 2/3 git-compat-util: convert string predicates to return boolPhillip Wood, Jul 14, 2025
  5. Eric SunshineJul 14, 2025
  6. Elijah NewrenJul 14, 2025
  7. brian m. carlsonJul 14, 2025
  8. Phillip WoodJul 15, 2025
  9. 3/3 strbuf: convert predicates to return boolPhillip Wood, Jul 14, 2025
  10. 0/3 C99: declare bool experiment a successPhillip Wood, Jul 15, 2025
  11. 1/3 CodingGuildlines: allow the use of boolPhillip Wood, Jul 15, 2025
  12. Jeff KingJul 16, 2025
  13. Jeff KingJul 16, 2025
  14. Elijah NewrenJul 16, 2025
  15. 2/3 git-compat-util: convert string predicates to return boolPhillip Wood, Jul 15, 2025
  16. 3/3 strbuf: convert predicates to return boolPhillip Wood, Jul 15, 2025
  17. Elijah NewrenJul 15, 2025
  18. rsbecker@nexbridge.comJul 15, 2025
  19. Elijah NewrenJul 15, 2025
  20. rsbecker@nexbridge.comJul 15, 2025
  21. Junio C HamanoJul 15, 2025
  22. Junio C HamanoJul 15, 2025
  23. brian m. carlsonJul 15, 2025
  24. Junio C HamanoJul 15, 2025
  25. 0/3 C99: declare bool experiment a successPhillip Wood, Jul 16, 2025
  26. 1/3 CodingGuidelines: allow the use of boolPhillip Wood, Jul 16, 2025
  27. 2/3 git-compat-util: convert string predicates to return boolPhillip Wood, Jul 16, 2025
  28. Karthik NayakJul 16, 2025
  29. 3/3 strbuf: convert predicates to return boolPhillip Wood, Jul 16, 2025
  30. Karthik NayakJul 16, 2025
  31. Karthik NayakJul 16, 2025
  32. Phillip WoodJul 17, 2025
  33. Karthik NayakJul 22, 2025

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