[parted-devel] [PATCH] doc: add HACKING

[Jim Meyering]

Petr Uzel wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 05:43:01PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> FYI, I've just pushed this and expect to have to adjust it.
>>
>> Not everything in it is true yet (e.g., leading TABs),
>> but that should change soon.  Of course, it'll take some
>> work to make these style and indentation preferences sensible.
>>
> [...]
>>
>> +Minor syntactic preferences
>> +===========================
>> +[I hesitate to write this one down, because it appears to be an
>> + acquired taste, at least for native-English speakers.  It seems odd
>> + (if not truly backwards) to nearly anyone who doesn't have a strong
>> + mathematics background and perhaps a streak of something odd in their
>> + character ;-) ]
>> +In writing arithmetic comparisons, use "<" and "<=" rather than
>> +">" and ">=".  For some justification, read this:
>> +  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/3903/focus=4126
>
> In the referenced email (and whole thread), I don't see any reason why
> (1 < x) should be preferred over (x > 1), except the statement
> "textual order should reflect actual order" - OK, but why?
>
> And yes, (1 < x) really looks unnatural to me.

Even when it's part of a range check?

  1 < x && x < n