Error in GCC documentation page

Robert Dewar dewar@adacore.com
Thu Jul 8 08:56:00 GMT 2010


Nils Schlemminger wrote:
>   Am 08.07.2010 10:49, schrieb Jonathan Wakely:
>> On 8 July 2010 07:12, Nils Schlemminger wrote:
>>>   Am 08.07.2010 00:56, schrieb Jonathan Wakely:
>>>> The usage is correct in "standardese" and English.
>>>> My dictionary gives one definition of "integral" as "denoting a number
>>>> that is an integer".
>>>>
>>> Thats correct but not all non native speaker know that. The word integer is
>>> more common.
>> But in the C++ standard "integral expression" is more common.
> 
> Ok point. But shall the writers of the C++ standard read the document or 
> all developers on the world? Trust me not all c++ programmers had read 
> the standard.

I think integral expression is perfectly clear, and preferable



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