Re: [PATCH] coding-style.rst: Add fallthrough as an emacs keyword

From: Joe Perches
Date: Sun Mar 15 2020 - 00:28:02 EST


On Sat, 2020-03-14 at 19:12 -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 02:13:59PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > I've no idea how to remove the infinite monkeys jibe from the chinese translation
>
> I don't think you should. That's part of Linus' original text, and I
> don't think it deters contributors.
>
> > -uses are less than desirable (in fact, they are worse than random
> > -typing - an infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs would never
> > -make a good program).
> > +uses are less than desirable.

It's silly, and moderately offensive,
unrepresentative of the softer, modern Linus.