On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 05:43:01PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote: > FYI, I've just pushed this and expect to have to adjust it. > > Not everything in it is true yet (e.g., leading TABs), > but that should change soon. Of course, it'll take some > work to make these style and indentation preferences sensible. > [...] > > +Minor syntactic preferences > +=========================== > +[I hesitate to write this one down, because it appears to be an > + acquired taste, at least for native-English speakers. It seems odd > + (if not truly backwards) to nearly anyone who doesn't have a strong > + mathematics background and perhaps a streak of something odd in their > + character ;-) ] > +In writing arithmetic comparisons, use "<" and "<=" rather than > +">" and ">=". For some justification, read this: > + http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/3903/focus=4126
In the referenced email (and whole thread), I don't see any reason why (1 < x) should be preferred over (x > 1), except the statement "textual order should reflect actual order" - OK, but why? And yes, (1 < x) really looks unnatural to me. Thanks, Petr -- Petr Uzel, openSUSE Boosters Team IRC: ptr_uzl @ freenode
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