On Friday 06 April 2007 3:07 pm, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>
> On Apr 6 2007 15:05, David Brownell wrote:
> >
> >> but... egads! Linus
> >> put spaces before the &&s to line them up nicely!
> >>
> >> "more in the breach" and all that I guess...
> >
> >Yeah, nobody likes style nazis. On the other hand, it's rather
> >unusual to be the target of style nazism for actually following
> >the style guide!! You'd think that maybe the folk objecting to
> >that style guide might maybe choose a more direct way to address
> >their particular frustrations, eh? :)
>
> About time...
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_Law
With respect to coding style discussions, "style nazi" happens to be
what's called a "term of art".
But if your invocation of Godwin's law helps stop this, I'll be glad.
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