From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 11:37:48 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Change "refs/" references to symbolic constants
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0702201235350.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <200702201057.21398.andyparkins@gmail.com>

Hi,

On Tue, 20 Feb 2007, Andy Parkins wrote:

> I've never really liked "!" on strcmp() lines (but I accept that that is the 
> tradition in git) because it implies the the output of prefixcmp is boolean, 
> but it's actually ternary.

Actually, it's not even ternary, but to the return value should only be 
handled in terms of >0, ==0, <0.

Ah, and if "!" implies a boolean, then why is "!!" a common construct? 
Because "!" really does not imply a boolean.

Ciao,
Dscho