From: Junio C Hamano Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 23:07:02 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/6] sha1_name: avoid Yoda conditions Message-ID: <7v38u7aa95.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <7v7gjjaagb.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Junio C Hamano writes: > Felipe Contreras writes: > >> Yoda speaks in reverse "Stopped they must be; on this all depends". >> "if (0 < len)" says "if zero is less than len", which is in reverse, >> as reverse as "if 1.50 is taller than you". It's all reversed: "if you >> are taller than 1.50", "if len is greater than zero", "They must be >> stopped; all depends on this". >> >> I don't understand what is not clear. > > I never said anything is "not clear", did I [*1*]? Ahh, OK. Earlier I did not see the link between "Yoda" and "const op var" that is "speak in reverse". So I did say "not clear" or an equivalent of it, and you clarified it with "reverse" here. Thanks.