Petr Uzel wrote: > 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.
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