From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: can we avoid using contractions in GDB messages?
Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2011 12:14:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110307112946.GF30306@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1PwYXs-0000IB-Dl@fencepost.gnu.org>
> You mean, use "could not" instead of "couldn't"? Why is that an
> issue?
Yes. I personally think it does not look good - we use these in
spoken English, but books, articles, and IMO software should not
be using them (makes me feel like the author was too lazy to write
the entire word).
--
Joel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-07 11:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-05 0:56 [commit] symfile.c (simple_overlay_update): Check for null return Michael Snyder
2011-03-07 11:07 ` can we avoid using contractions in GDB messages? (was: "[commit] symfile.c (simple_overlay_update): Check for null return.") Joel Brobecker
2011-03-07 11:30 ` can we avoid using contractions in GDB messages? Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-07 12:14 ` Joel Brobecker [this message]
2011-03-07 19:07 ` Michael Snyder
2011-03-07 19:19 ` Paul Koning
2011-03-08 4:54 ` Joel Brobecker
2011-03-07 21:58 ` can we avoid using contractions in GDB messages? (was: "[commit] symfile.c (simple_overlay_update): Check for null return.") Mike Frysinger
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