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Date:      Tue, 20 Mar 2018 09:29:02 -0600
From:      Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>
To:        Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au>, Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org>
Cc:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r331226 - in head/sys: amd64/linux amd64/linux32 i386/linux
Message-ID:  <1521559742.99081.110.camel@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20180320183744.S950@besplex.bde.org>
References:  <201803192126.w2JLQW0N039356@repo.freebsd.org> <20180320183744.S950@besplex.bde.org>

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On Tue, 2018-03-20 at 19:19 +1100, Bruce Evans wrote:
> The random verb order is especially confsing for 'fix' and 'fixup'.
> 'fixup' is a noun, but is sometimes abused as a verb and adverb instead
> of the correct verb and adverb 'fix up'.  When it is placed at the
> end, e.g., for limit_fixup(), it is unclear if it is a noun or a verb.
> The noun form would mean a function returning a fixup and the verb
> form would mean a function fixing up something.  Using 'fix' instead
> of fix as a verb at the end is even worse since 'fix' really is both
> a noun and a verb.  The normal order in fixlimit makes it clear that
> it is used as a verb.

This stuff all becomes easier if you remember one simple rule:

    In English, there is no noun which cannot be verbed.

-- Ian




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