Call it "Objective-C" consistently

Joseph S. Myers jsm28@cam.ac.uk
Thu Jun 21 11:57:00 GMT 2001


On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Stan Shebs wrote:

> The language is correctly called "Objective-C", with a hyphen,
> and so I've committed the following patch that fixes the docs
> everywhere.  (Sources to be done later.)  I didn't commit man pages,

Could you include this in the style list in gcc.texi (the one that 
currently says

@c For consistency, use the following:
@c - "back end" as a noun, "back-end" as an adjective.
@c - "bit-field" not "bitfield" or "bit field" (following the C and C++
@c   standards).
@c - "built-in" as an adjective ("built-in function"), or sometimes
@c   "built in", not "builtin" (which isn't a word).
@c - "front end" as a noun, "front-end" as an adjective.

)?

> 2001-06-21  Stan Shebs  <shebs@apple.com>
> 
>         * doc/contrib.texi, doc/cpp.texi, doc/cppinternals.texi,
>         doc/extend.texi, doc/gcc.texi, doc/install.texi, doc/invoke.texi,
>         doc/objc.texi, doc/tm.texi: Use the correct name "Objective-C"
>         everywhere instead of "Objective C".

I'd hope this might also be considered appropriate for the branch when the
3.0.1 criteria are determined.

> ! @c FIXME!  Someone who knows something about Objective C ought to put in
>   @c a paragraph or two about it here, and move the index entry down when
>   @c there is more to point to than the general mention in the 1st par.

Can you also attend to this FIXME :-)?

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk



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