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Re: [patch] doc/*.texi: Fix typos and follow spelling conventions.
- From: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at integrable-solutions dot net>
- To: Matt Austern <austern at apple dot com>
- Cc: Ziemowit Laski <zlaski at apple dot com>, jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: 17 Dec 2002 21:47:53 +0100
- Subject: Re: [patch] doc/*.texi: Fix typos and follow spelling conventions.
- Organization: Integrable Solutions
- References: <727DBBC9-1200-11D7-BD76-000393B2ABA2@apple.com>
Matt Austern <austern@apple.com> writes:
| On Tuesday, December 17, 2002, at 12:40 PM, 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?
|
| For what it's worth, this sort of deliberate misspelling
| (for documentation that's known to be incomplet and incorrekt)
| is common. Our documentation is hardly the only place that
| uses this convention.
I think I have to add that V3 used to use that convention (mostly
after WG21). So, we have also precedence here in the GCC project.
I can't imagine that suddenly people would have to revert
self-descriptive patches/documentation.
-- Gaby