From: Andrew Christopher Hawk <andrew.hawk@blackburn.edu>
Subject: Re: Diff: Minor Improvement to Sentence
To: tech@openbsd.org
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2024 17:14:14 +0000

I hope that my messages are a bit more readable now.  I tried fiddling
with my e-mail client's encoding settings.

Jason McIntyre wrote:
> the
> whole nuts of it is that it's a way for clients to autoconfigure their
> ip stuff. isn;t that the first thing you need to know? then how you go
> about it, or for which devices it might be relevant.
I agree.  I figure that anyone who is particularly interested will keep
reading and discover that the statement is conditional.

Theo de Raadt wrote:
> Well, I disagree.  The usual way to describe any decision leading to
> an operation is to use the form:
>
>       IF condition, do OPERATION.
>
> rather than:
>
>        do OPERATION, IF condition.
The usual way is not necessarily the *best* way.*  Also, I frequently
see uses of the latter style which are very readable for me.  In this
case, I think that the latter style works well.

*Of course, bestness is often subjective.  :-)