From: Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>
To: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Cc: Vladimir Prus <vladimir@codesourcery.com>
Subject: Re: [commit] Doc: -var-delete
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2006 10:29:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <17779.63318.762220.451152@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> (raw)
> > @smallexample
> > ! Â-var-delete [ -c ] @var{name}
> > @end smallexample
> >
> > Deletes a previously created variable object and all of its children.
> > + With the @samp{-c} option, just deletes the children.
> Should this be "deletes just the children"? Or "deletes only the children"?
> The way it's written now "just" binds to "deletes", so one wonders if
> there's "just delete" behaviour and "not just delete" behaviour and what
> the latter might be.
If it were a legal contract, I think you may have found a loophole. For
general reading though, I think the second sentence is unambiguous in the
context of the first. However I don't mind if someone wants to change it.
--
Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob
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2006-12-04 10:29 Nick Roberts [this message]
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2006-12-04 3:57 Nick Roberts
2006-12-04 4:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-12-04 4:45 ` Nick Roberts
2006-12-04 19:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-12-04 20:57 ` Nick Roberts
2006-12-08 17:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-12-04 9:16 ` Vladimir Prus
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