Re: bin/41071: make NO to NO_ transition patch

From: Bruce Evans (bde_at_zeta.org.au)
Date: 04/17/04

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To: Cyrille Lefevre <clefevre-lists@9online.fr>

    On Fri, 16 Apr 2004, Cyrille Lefevre wrote:

    > "Bruce Evans" <bde@zeta.org.au> wrote:
    > > On Thu, 15 Apr 2004, Cyrille Lefevre wrote:
    > >
    > > > anyone interrested to validate and commit this PR ?
    > >
    > > I hope not.
    >
    > I hope yes since this was not the past agreement.

    I certainly didn't agree to it, and never would.

    > <cite "Mike Barcroft">
    > In the past versions of this conversation, the general agreement is that
    > going forward we should probably standardize on underscores to seperate
    > words. So, NO_FOO rather than NOFOO. However, no_volunteer has come
    > forward to do the work you've described, so if you're volunteering....
    > </cite>

    It was bad to encourage people to waste time on this.

    > the purpose of the original thread was to convert "all" variables to one
    > form or another, not just some of them for some or other reason.
    > in one word... be consistant, it's help.
    > it's not my fault if only some "no conforming" variables regarding all
    > others are used in so many makefiles.

    For a more modest task, try fixing the English spelling of "nothing"
    to "no thing" and "consistent" to "consistant".

    Bruce
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