Re: [PATCH 3/3] diff --stat: sometimes use non-linear scaling.

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sep 27, 2006, 08:35 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0609271030180.14200@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <BAYC1-PASMTP024D1DA4730F9DF93F857FAE1A0@CEZ.ICE>

Hi,

On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, Sean wrote:

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> On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 09:50:11 +0200 (CEST)
> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> > Could you stop it already?
> 
> Well i'd like to offer some support for David.
> 
> In English you'd never say "if 10 is less than the number of girls"
> you'd always say "if the number of girls is greater than 10".
> 
> Why on earth would you ever write C code different than the way you'd
> express the same question in natural language?   Maybe this is only common
> in English and other languages are different; that would explain why this
> seems more natural to some.

In this case, though, "English" is utterly, totally irrelevant. The question is a mathematical one, and thus, the solution is a mathematical one.

So, in essence, if you do not understand a conditional with a constant on the left side, just because it happens to honour the mathematical view of "left is small, right is large", you do not stand a chance of understanding the formula, right?

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> > Git's source code is very clean and readable, even if there are inversions 
> > you might not be used to.
> 
> Not to me.  I find it very annoying to have to figure out what
> "if ( 10 < x ) ..." is really trying to do.

Oh, come on! You cannot possibly spend even _seconds_ on this particular construct!

'nough said.

Ciao, Dscho