From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jim Meyering Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: (0 <= i && i < N) is not "backwards" Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2013 22:45:52 +0100 Message-ID: <87r4iwftnz.fsf@rho.meyering.net> References: <514F88E9.2020600@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1364679959 16513 80.91.229.3 (30 Mar 2013 21:45:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2013 21:45:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Andreas Schwab , Emacs Development To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 30 22:46:26 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UM3bW-0002XF-Ks for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Mar 2013 22:46:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49945 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UM3b7-0005RZ-So for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Mar 2013 17:46:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:42894) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UM3b2-0005RU-D8 for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Mar 2013 17:45:59 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UM3az-0005Jy-Ut for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Mar 2013 17:45:56 -0400 Original-Received: from mx.meyering.net ([88.168.87.75]:33656) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UM3az-0005J0-Il for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Mar 2013 17:45:53 -0400 Original-Received: from rho.meyering.net (rho.meyering.net [127.0.0.1]) by rho.meyering.net (Acme Bit-Twister) with ESMTP id A3BAA600BC; Sat, 30 Mar 2013 22:45:52 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <514F88E9.2020600@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Sun, 24 Mar 2013 16:14:49 -0700") Original-Lines: 20 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 88.168.87.75 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:158487 Archived-At: Paul Eggert wrote: > Emacs trunk bzr 112126, installed with the commit log > "Reorder conditions that are written backwards", > changed a lot of Emacs code, typically to replace expressions > like "0 < i" with expressions like "i > 0". > > This sort of stylistic change shouldn't be introduced without > discussion. I often prefer "<", as it causes textual I was surprised to see that commit, and came to this list to find the discussion that happened prior to the global style conversion. Considering that there was no discussion, a snap revert would be fair. Full disclosure: I too prefer the "use < and <= everywhere" style, and mention it in the GNU coreutils' HACKING guidelines: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/HACKING#n412 Jim