From: Vladimir Prus <vladimir@codesourcery.com>
To: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] GDB/MI documentation
Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 15:22:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <guhcv3$gih$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18955.48976.690330.445604@totara.tehura.co.nz>
Nick Roberts wrote:
> - Notifications is the mechanism for reporting changes in the state of the
> - target,
>
> + Notifications are used for reporting changes in the state of the
> + target,
>
> It's generally considered bad English to use "is" after a plural word.
Unfortunately, you have made a semantic change to the sentence. Original
sentence was definition what notification is. The changed sentence, instead,
say what notifications do, and is not a definition.
- Volodya
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-14 15:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-13 10:36 Nick Roberts
2009-05-13 11:59 ` Vladimir Prus
2009-05-13 18:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-05-13 18:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-05-14 6:51 ` Nick Roberts
2009-05-14 15:22 ` Vladimir Prus [this message]
2009-05-14 22:07 ` Nick Roberts
2009-05-14 19:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-05-14 21:50 ` Nick Roberts
2009-05-15 7:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
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