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Re: [patch] doc/*.texi: Fix typos and follow spelling conventions.
- From: Matt Austern <austern at apple dot com>
- To: Ziemowit Laski <zlaski at apple dot com>
- Cc: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 16:24:34 -0800
- Subject: Re: [patch] doc/*.texi: Fix typos and follow spelling conventions.
On Tuesday, December 17, 2002, at 04:20 PM, Ziemowit Laski wrote:
On Tuesday, Dec 17, 2002, at 15:27 US/Pacific, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Ziemowit Laski wrote:
I'm not sure which document you're referring to and so can't comment
specifically. But yes, I would definitely consider standards
documents
containing intentional malapropisms to be unprofessional. :-)
Do you also disapprove of limericks in (released, not draft)
standards?
Not sure what you mean...
Look up 'immolation, self' in the index of the C++ Standard,
ISO/IEC 14882:1998(E). Or, of course, just read clause 14.7.3,
paragraph 7.
It's not the only inside joke in that standard, for that matter.
--Matt