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Re: [patch] doc/*.texi: Fix typos and follow spelling conventions.

From: Toon Moene <toon at moene dot indiv dot nluug dot nl>
To: Neil Booth <neil at daikokuya dot co dot uk>
Cc: Ziemowit Laski <zlaski at apple dot com>, jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 23:08:37 +0100
Subject: Re: [patch] doc/*.texi: Fix typos and follow spelling conventions.
Organization: Moene Computational Physics, Maartensdijk, The Netherlands
References: <20021217.145927.99179649.kazu@cs.umass.edu> <BCD2160D-11FF-11D7-8268-000393673036@apple.com> <20021217210426.GA12117@daikokuya.co.uk>

Neil Booth wrote:

Ziemowit Laski wrote:-

Joseph, I hate to be a gadfly, but can you explain the rationale here?
Is there an ISO standard somewhere stipulating that incomplete and/or
incorrect documentation must also be misspelled, or that two wrongs
make a right?

It's nice to have a bit of simple humour in all the docs, don't you
think?  Even if it's just one line?

Needle.  Haystack.

Enough said.

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References:
- Re: [patch] doc/*.texi: Fix typos and follow spelling conventions.
  - From: Kazu Hirata
- Re: [patch] doc/*.texi: Fix typos and follow spelling conventions.
  - From: Ziemowit Laski
- Re: [patch] doc/*.texi: Fix typos and follow spelling conventions.
  - From: Neil Booth

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