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Re: Manual style: "non-zero" vs "nonzero"
- To: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>
- Subject: Re: Manual style: "non-zero" vs "nonzero"
- From: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>
- Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 13:28:43 +0200 (CEST)
- cc: Russ Allbery <rra at stanford dot edu>, <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> Given the comments here and Knuth's comments at
> <URL:http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/email.html> which give
> "non-zero" the same obsolescence as "soft-ware", I propose the
> following patch. OK to commit?
>
> 2001-10-09 Joseph S. Myers <jsm28@cam.ac.uk>
>
> * doc/gcc.texi: Document preference for "nonzero" over "non-zero".
Yup, thanks.
(Personally, in the case of prefix "non-" I do prefer the dash, because it
seems more logical and general, but as I'm not a native speaker, I defer
to those who are. ;-) )
Gerald
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