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Message-Id: <1246211313.13673.11.camel@Joe-Laptop.home>
Date:	Sun, 28 Jun 2009 10:48:33 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, trivial@...nel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/62] Remove unnecessary semicolons

On Sun, 2009-06-28 at 10:43 -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 10:16:05 -0700
> Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, 2009-06-28 at 10:11 -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > > can you improve your descriptions please?
> > > to at least include the why for a change, not just the how and
> > > what...
> > Is any part of "Remove unnecessary semicolons" unclear?
> > What would you prefer?
> 
> your sentence addresses the what question, no the why question
> or in business words: whats the value proposition

Are any of these better?

Saving the world, one byte at a time...
Because they're unnecessary...
Because they cause visual stalls when humans parse them...
Just for fun...

?

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