Re: [PATCH 2/2] Star wildcard ranges (e.g., "info thread 2.*")

Pedro Alves
2016-01-14T16:42:03Z

On 01/14/2016 04:16 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2016 11:13:47 +0000
>> From: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
>> CC: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
>>
>>>> +* In commands that accept thread IDs lists, you can now refer to all
>>>
>>> "thread ID lists", only one word in plural. Or maybe even better:
>>> "lists of thread IDs".
>>
>> Hmm, going further, I think that "list" should be singular too:
>>
>> In commands that accept a thread ID list, you can now refer to all
>> In commands that accept a list of thread IDs, you can now refer to all
>>
>> I prefer the former because "thread ID list" is a defined term in
>> the manual.
>
> I won't bykeshed over it, but just so you know: use of double "status
> constructus" in English is not a good style, because it is ambiguous
> -- is "thread ID list" an ID list of a thread or a list of thread
> IDs? The simple "list of thread IDs" disambiguates that.

I really don't won't to bikeshed over it either, so I'll change it,
though, I'd say that it's only ambiguous when read out of context,
and I'd argue that for the former you'd want to write
"thread's ID list".

I guess I just see it as being the same as saying "the phone number list".

> Thanks, this is OK.

Thanks,
Pedro Alves