From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OmMZw-0003ik-3a for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 20 Aug 2010 08:03:56 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1912DE07CD; Fri, 20 Aug 2010 08:03:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D835AE0990 for ; Fri, 20 Aug 2010 08:03:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from zaphod.digimed.co.uk (zaphod.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2A836682753 for ; Fri, 20 Aug 2010 09:03:47 +0100 (BST) Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 09:03:46 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] I can RTFM, but can I understand it: re elog messages Message-ID: <20100820090346.693f35c1@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <201008200038.10640.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> References: <201008200038.10640.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.6cvs28 (GTK+ 2.20.1; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/hdXcW+rffy2vcppn6ddllpd"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: f0472014-4dd9-4302-86d6-ea9813f3b39d X-Archives-Hash: f0babdfd1379b4c107036f8c0bb1c7f1 --Sig_/hdXcW+rffy2vcppn6ddllpd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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=20 > 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. --=20 Neil Bothwick Half of being smart is knowing what you're dumb at. --Sig_/hdXcW+rffy2vcppn6ddllpd Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkxuNuIACgkQum4al0N1GQO/CwCfWnCDUEwXkjLCAT+8Jf/F97IW zE0AnAmTP6PMNOYgoeRWDMgoQjV2/Ffz =3RAR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/hdXcW+rffy2vcppn6ddllpd--