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Re: Patch: Documenting tools necessary for GCC [take 2]
- From: "Zack Weinberg" <zack at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Phil Edwards <phil at jaj dot com>
- Cc: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at pfeifer dot com>, "Kaveh R. Ghazi" <ghazi at caip dot rutgers dot edu>, "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 19:30:40 -0700
- Subject: Re: Patch: Documenting tools necessary for GCC [take 2]
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Phil Edwards <phil@jaj.com> writes:
> On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 02:09:25AM +0200, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
>> > +In order to build the Ada compiler (GNAT) you must already have GNAT
>> > +installed because portions of the Ada frontend are written in Ada (with
>> > +GNAT extensions.)
>>
>> Is this American typography (and thus correct) or should the full stop
>> come after the closing parenthesis?
>
> I was under the impression that even American typograph requires the
> full stop after the closing parenthesis in this case, and that it's only
> quotation marks which are placed on the outside of the full stop.
I was taught that the full stop goes inside the closing parenthesis if
and only if the parentheses enclose one or more full sentences.
zw