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Re: [PATCH] glossary: explain "master" and "origin"

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Wwalt <wa1ter@myrealbox.com>
Date
Jan 10, 2006, 23:33 UTC
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walt wrote:
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> J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> [...]
>> 	Most projects have one upstream
>> 	project which they track.  This is is the branch used for
>> 	tracking that project...
> 
> s/This/'origin'/
> 
> Lordy, I think many of the world's problems could be solved just
> by forbidding the use of pronouns entirely!

Now that I've had another beer, it occurs to me that a 'pronoun' is nothing more or less than a 'pointer' to a noun.

Well! We all know that pointers are a major source of bugs in C code. Is it possible that lint could be taught to detect ambiguous pronouns in everyday speech?

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  1. glossary: explain "master" and "origin"Johannes Schindelin, Jan 10, 2006
  2. J. Bruce FieldsJan 10, 2006
  3. Johannes SchindelinJan 10, 2006
  4. Junio C HamanoJan 11, 2006
  5. waltJan 10, 2006
  6. waltJan 10, 2006

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