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Please don't not break

Posted Dec 1, 2005 17:31 UTC (Thu) by smurf (subscriber, #17840)
In reply to: Please don't not break by gregkh
Parent article: Future Driver core changes

You are missing the keyword "double negation". ;-)

Read literally, your intention seems to be to have *everything* break.

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Posted Dec 1, 2005 17:38 UTC (Thu) by gregkh (subscriber, #8) [Link]

Doh!

Ok, sorry, I didn't mean that, thanks for pointing it out to me.

Please don't not break

Posted Jan 12, 2006 20:10 UTC (Thu) by k8to (subscriber, #15413) [Link]

Just to be a nudge: double negation in english is ambiguous. It is commonly used in a manner interpreted to be nonconflicting, and this nonconflicting behavior is considered proper in most languages.

All I'm saying here is humans are not CPUs, and can handle these issues fine, but it doesn't hurt to tighten up your language.