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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH, doc RFA] Fix lazy string type docs
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2016 19:07:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83y410l6wa.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADPb22QnnuHuG+sC=rg5HUJP2L_m1P_J7TTFLv0H-KDd6tON=A@mail.gmail.com>	(message from Doug Evans on Thu, 3 Nov 2016 11:30:39 -0700)

> From: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
> Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2016 11:30:39 -0700
> Cc: gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
> 
> On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 11:21 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> 
>  > Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2016 17:46:28 +0000
>  > From: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
>  >
>  > +Return the type of a character in @var{lazy-string}.
> 
>  Hmm... what is "type of a character" in this context?
> 
>  I have no comments to the markup or the text.
> 
>  Thanks.
> 
> ​Consider​ char vs wchar_t.
> e.g.,
> #include <stddef.h>
> char foo[] = "bar";
> wchar_t wide_foo[] = L"bar";

So maybe it would be more clear to say "the type of characters",
plural?  And perhaps give an example or two of what types these could
be?

Thanks.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-11-03 19:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-03 17:46 Doug Evans
2016-11-03 18:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-03 18:36   ` Doug Evans
     [not found]   ` <CADPb22QnnuHuG+sC=rg5HUJP2L_m1P_J7TTFLv0H-KDd6tON=A@mail.gmail.com>
2016-11-03 19:07     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-11-03 23:55       ` Doug Evans
2016-11-04  7:31         ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-03 19:04 ` Doug Evans
2016-11-03 21:20   ` André Pönitz
2016-11-04  0:01   ` Doug Evans
2016-11-04 17:53     ` Doug Evans
2016-11-04 19:20       ` Phil Muldoon
2016-11-04 19:29         ` Doug Evans

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