From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] I can RTFM, but can I understand it: re elog messages
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 09:03:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100820090346.693f35c1@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201008200038.10640.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org>
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On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 00:38:10 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> No, it isn't. You may be being confused by the unnecessary inclusion of
> brackets (parentheses if you're American);
If you're British too:
Defined usage:
() parentheses
[] brackets
{} braces
General usage:
() brackets
[] square brackets
{} curly brackets
I'll let you decide which is the more intuitive usage.
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Neil Bothwick
Half of being smart is knowing what you're dumb at.
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Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-19 20:21 [gentoo-user] I can RTFM, but can I understand it: re elog messages Kevin O'Gorman
2010-08-19 22:01 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-08-19 23:38 ` Peter Humphrey
2010-08-20 7:20 ` Dale
2010-08-20 8:01 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-08-20 8:39 ` Dale
2010-08-20 8:03 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2010-08-20 9:01 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-08-20 9:23 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-08-20 14:53 ` Peter Humphrey
2010-09-02 16:15 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-08-20 9:06 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-08-20 13:20 ` Bill Longman
2010-08-20 14:58 ` Peter Humphrey
2010-08-20 15:12 ` Bill Longman
2010-08-20 15:40 ` Kevin O'Gorman
2010-08-20 17:07 ` [WAY OT] Parenthese, was " Mike Edenfield
2010-08-20 19:00 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-08-20 19:32 ` [gentoo-user] Re: [WAY OT] Parenthese Alex Schuster
2010-08-20 20:14 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-08-21 9:53 ` Peter Humphrey
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