cvs commit: src Makefile.inc1 src/rescue/rescue Makefile

[Greg Byshenk]

On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 09:08:44PM +0100, Mark Murray wrote:
> Bruce Evans writes:

> > > We aren't split -- older options have no underscore, new ones do (unless
> > > tightly related to older options).  Please change it to NO_RESUCE.

> > We are split.  Some of us don't like the underscores.  Please change it
> > only after you change the English word "nothing" to "no_thing" both in
> > spelling an pronunciation.
 
> Good grief. I don't believe that this is being argued over at this level.
 
> These are _MACROS_ not English. Please don't turn them into holy warfare.

They are macros, but they are _also_ English (or at least mnemonics based
on English -- the modifier is not GEEN_* or PAS_DE_* or whatever, nor are
the macros made up of meaningless symbols).

That being the case, I think the points made by Jos Backus and Garance
Drosihn -- that 'NO' is a modifier and should be made explicit -- are
compelling, and not sufficiently counterbalanced by the fact that 
'NO*' is slightly easier to type than 'NO_*'.
 

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