linux-kernel - Re: [for-next][PATCH 23/24] string.h: Add strncmp

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Message-ID: <20181222072637.2aac3477@vmware.local.home>
Date:   Sat, 22 Dec 2018 07:26:37 -0500
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:     Malcolm Priestley <tvboxspy@...il.com>
Cc:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linux List Kernel Mailing <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
        Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
        Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
        Tom Zanussi <zanussi@...nel.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [for-next][PATCH 23/24] string.h: Add strncmp_prefix() helper
 macro

On Sat, 22 Dec 2018 10:20:02 +0000
Malcolm Priestley <tvboxspy@...il.com> wrote:

> > Calling it "strncmp_prefix()" when there is no "n" there makes no sense.
> > 
> > So drop the "n" from the name.
> >   
> Being British the 'n' implies 'and' and still being interpreted Boolean.
> 
> strncmp = string and compare
> 
> Like other of our words Fish'n'Chips, Salt'n'Shake.
> 
> I don't think these abbreviations exist in American English.

No, no, they actually do exist in American English.

But when people ask me which language is my mother tongue, I simply
reply "C". In which case, 'n' means number.

-- Steve