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Re: Coding conventions -- command line option vs command-line option
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at pfeifer dot com>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, Sandra Loosemore <sandra at codesourcery dot com>
- Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 11:24:58 +0000 (UTC)
- Subject: Re: Coding conventions -- command line option vs command-line option
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709141157300.11229@acrux.dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
On Mon, 17 Sep 2007, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> And now to the most important issue of all to address before we can
> release GCC 4.3.0. ;-)
>
> In our current documentation we have both "command-line option" and
> "command line option". Like other such cases, we should make a choice
> and document this in codingconventions.html.
>
> I am willing to take care of that, and also adjusting our web pages
> accordingly. The question now is: which of the two variants shall we
> go for?
As an adjective I think it should be "command-line"; I'm sure Sandra will
correct me if I'm wrong here.
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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com