Re: [fortran,patch] fix typos

[Steve Kargl <sgk at troutmask dot apl dot washington dot edu>]

On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 10:00:41PM +0200, Tobias Burnus wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Brooks Moses wrote:
> >> I reverted to "discontiguous"; I also incorporated the change to
> >> -Wimplicit-interface as suggested by Bernhard Fischer.
> >
> > Google does find a lot of people using "discontiguous", though, so
> > maybe it's a real word.  On the other hand, "noncontiguous" is more
> > common, and I think it sounds a lot better.
> 
> With "non-" there is always the question how to spell is "noncontiguous"
> (as suggested here) or "non-contiguous" as suggested in your previous email?
> 

With my former editor's hat on, I would recommend noncontiguous as
the correct form.  In general, the hyphenated form for a prefix 
should only be used to avoid confusion (eg., re-examine as opposed
to reexamine, and nonstandard as opposed to non-standard).

-- 
Steve