From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 15:30:03 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: Update information about <format> in git-for-each-ref
Message-ID: <7vac3b5gn8.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <454875AC.6060300@op5.se>

Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> writes:

> ... For me it's the other
> way around, so I think of the above as "if it doesn't compare to this
> or that, then do this", but the "are equal to" meaning of "compare"
> isn't intuitive to me as I spent the first several years of my
> english-speaking life using "compare" exclusively as a verb.

<offtopic>

I think I should have said that "I force me to pronounce" and I
am trying to say the same thing as you said.

xxxcmp(a, b) literally is "compare a and b and give me the
result"; the result coming back as "true" when a and b are
different is counter-intuitive and I think it is so to
everybody, not limited to non-English speaking people.  That's
why I force me to ignore the etymology of the "cmp" in the
function name and call that "a and b differs" or "subtract b
from a" depending on the context.

By the way, I think "a compares to b" is also a verb, not just
"i compare a and b and found these differences".

</offtopic>