Re: [gentoo-user] I can RTFM, but can I understand it: re elog messages

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

Apparently, though unproven, at 10:03 on Friday 20 August 2010, Neil Bothwick 
did opine thusly:

> 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.

The former, obviously.

Stuff has names, people should learn the names.

"Arrogant jerk on second floor with a beard and no head hair" is definitely 
more intuitive to my new staff, but for anyone here longer than a week it is 
far simpler to just use the name of the thing instead of some description, and 
refer to me as "Alan"


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