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Re: Objective C lexer - small cleanup
- To: Zack Weinberg <zackw at Stanford dot EDU>
- Subject: Re: Objective C lexer - small cleanup
- From: Phil Edwards <pedwards at disaster dot jaj dot com>
- Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 14:05:24 -0400
- Cc: Neil Booth <neil at daikokuya dot demon dot co dot uk>, Stan Shebs <shebs at apple dot com>, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- References: <20010701190653.A12236@daikokuya.demon.co.uk> <20010701114742.C18369@stanford.edu>
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 11:47:42AM -0700, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> A word about references to the C standard: "6.10.8.4" is ambiguous.
> It could mean paragraph 4 of section 6.10.8, or all of section
> 6.10.8.4. I prefer to indicate that the last digit is a paragraph
> number, "6.10.8p4".
>
> The C++ standard nicely avoids this problem by giving all the sections
> names.
Someone (dunno who) started referring to [x.y.z]/p and many in the C++
community seem to have adopted it. It works for me.
Phil
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Would I had phrases that are not known, utterances that are strange, in
new language that has not been used, free from repetition, not an utterance
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