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 1OmNWw-0008Jd-W1 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 20 Aug 2010 09:04:55 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 661B4E0A84; Fri, 20 Aug 2010 09:04:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f53.google.com (mail-ew0-f53.google.com [209.85.215.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A8D4E09DC for ; Fri, 20 Aug 2010 09:04:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy19 with SMTP id 19so2186481ewy.40 for ; Fri, 20 Aug 2010 02:04:48 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=mMhVwhjoFOyxDYfblN95j6jeLQeNQrIkaHu8HRwbe7I=; b=P902MIFvxfe71B+Gu+JKvoLEFolYuVlPFOWXHhJa/OYKLl3DZsIVJtFiAJaojgPNwL KH1eDLacFcAbyMU6XpZmhRHRAgeBNTD6Vbupt6vGrBZctrvmF4x558uK4AB79OQomdSs 1qUYZF/h6Rh+0AzD/fAzXhQnqWm7nQ8NTduyY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=ZWCQx1vCZFyoi6izdXiO594sUgR4VsHf7RU5MxiXPEL/EirjykzCs0fEDzgsJ/nd5A e6F6UrsMZldJlJcedeYNqEQ1waf+T0BuNS2tVoElfYMWUR+UEVZUzUS/Rn6D8zgHYNj/ 6JW5PRvk8WgP/REP7c6mq67xnx535mOWnutzk= Received: by 10.213.33.137 with SMTP id h9mr29553ebd.88.1282295088625; Fri, 20 Aug 2010 02:04:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (dustpuppy.is.co.za [196.14.169.11]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id a48sm4355527eei.18.2010.08.20.02.04.46 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 20 Aug 2010 02:04:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon 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 11:01:50 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.34-ck-r1; KDE/4.4.5; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Neil Bothwick References: <201008200038.10640.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> <20100820090346.693f35c1@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20100820090346.693f35c1@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> 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: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201008201101.50786.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 7ad7107d-ea3b-425d-86bc-8cb2ea2b88b2 X-Archives-Hash: 996e5abbdff991ea87f256e2fb2b7257 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" -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com