Manual style: "non-zero" vs "nonzero"
Geert Bosch
bosch@gnat.com
Tue Oct 9 11:07:00 GMT 2001
On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
In fact, I have now received mails (both to the list and privately) from
native speakers that do prefer "non-zero" as well, and also google has
twice as many hits for "non-zero" as it has for "nonzero", so it seems
we really should standardize on "non-zero" instead.
The Ada standard for example, uses nonzero in preference over non-zero.
In the GNAT documentation, which will be contributed shortly, all but a
few occurrences used the version without the dash as well. (I now changed
it to use nonzero exclusively.)
-Geert
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