linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] rust: page: add Rust version of PAGE

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Message-ID: <afc139fe-ac03-43e7-a5c0-22410f1acea3@ryhl.io>
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2024 20:59:13 +0200
From: Alice Ryhl <alice@...l.io>
To: John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>,
 Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>
Cc: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@...gle.com>, Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@...nel.org>,
 Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
 "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@...radead.org>,
 Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@...il.com>, Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>,
 Gary Guo <gary@...yguo.net>, Björn Roy Baron
 <bjorn3_gh@...tonmail.com>, Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@...ton.me>,
 Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@...nel.org>, Trevor Gross <tmgross@...ch.edu>,
 linux-mm@...ck.org, rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] rust: page: add Rust version of PAGE_ALIGN

On 10/21/24 8:41 PM, John Hubbard wrote:
> On 10/21/24 11:37 AM, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 21, 2024 at 8:35 PM John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Is this another case of C and Rust using different words for things??
>>> Wow. OK...
>>
>> I am not sure what you mean -- by BE I meant British English.
>>
>> See my other reply as well -- I just changed it anyway because Rust
>> apparently uses "parentheses".
>>
> 
> Right. For spoken languages, that's simply preference, and I would not
> try to impose anything on anyone there.
> 
> But in this case, at least for C (and, from reading my Rust book(s), I
> thought for Rust also), "parentheses" is a technical specification, and
> we should prefer to be accurate:
> 
>      parentheses: ()
>      brackets:    []
> 
> Yes?
What word would you use to collectively talk about (), [], {}? In my 
native language they're all a kind of parenthesis.

Alice