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Re: [WWW] add "bug fix" to codingconventions.html

> >>>    <tr>
> >>> +    <td>"bug fix"</td>
> >>> +    <td>"bugfix" or "bug-fix"</td>
> >>> +    <td>"bugfix" isn't a word</td>
> >>> +  </tr>
> >> Joseph, can you please advise?
> > 
> > I'm happy with this patch unless Sandra wishes to contradict it.
> 
> I think "bug fix" is correct as a noun, but if used as an adjective immediately 
> before the noun it modifies, the normal English convention is to hyphenate such 
> phrases.  For example, it is correct to refer to a patch that implements a "bug 
> fix" (unhyphenated noun) as "a bug-fix patch" (hyphenated adjective).  I agree 
> that "bugfix" isn't a real word.

OK.  May I commit the patch above, then?  Then will come the task of
identifying breaches of this convention.  :-)

Ben
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