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Re: FYI: master: address some of the syntax-check errors
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Akim Demaille |
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Re: FYI: master: address some of the syntax-check errors |
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Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:27:57 +0100 |
Le 20 févr. 2012 à 18:56, Paul Eggert a écrit :
> On 02/18/2012 02:02 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
>>> for (/* Niente */; exponent; --exponent)
>> why this comment in italian ("Niente") here?
>
> I always took it as a reference to Far Niente winery
> <http://www.farniente.com/> and assumed that the original
> programmer had drunk a bottle or two of their good stuff
> before composing the code. Dolce far niente!
I never realized that. Although I confess that on more
than one occasion, I did have a couple of bottles while
hacking :) Fortunately Git now allows to keep this local :)