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

From: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 16, 2025, 05:06 UTC
Message-ID: <CABPp-BFf1HApgiPwQc_yM2=DdyzN0QTxFZQRt--RBAvJqpCX0A@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20250716044658.GA1396022@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Tue, Jul 15, 2025 at 9:46 PM Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

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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:
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> > > 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.

hehe

> 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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry%27s_law

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