Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] lib/raid6/test/Makefile: Use `$(pound)` instead of `\#` for Make 4.3

2022-02-09 Thread David T-G
Paul, et al --

...and then Wols Lists said...
% 
% On 08/02/2022 15:21, Paul Menzel wrote:
...
% 
% As commented elsewhere, for the sake of us ENGLISH speakers,
% *PLEASE* make that $(hash). A pound sign is £.

Or, even better, $(octothorpe) since that's merely a symbol rather than a
food product or a result of an algorithm on data.  You might even hope
that we hash this out eventually ...


Have a great day!

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Re: a pound's a pound the whole world 'round (was "Re: [PATCH 1/3] ... Use `$(pound)` instead ...")

2022-01-26 Thread David T-G
David, et al --

...and then David Laight said...
% 
% From: Paul Menzel
% > Sent: 26 January 2022 11:42
% > 
% ..
% > +pound := \#
% 
% Please use 'hash' not 'pound'.

Ahem ...  Everyone knows that hash is best served hot and that
that symbol is an octothorpe.


% Only american greengrocers use that horrid name.
[snip]

*grin*


HAND

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