From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5414 invoked by alias); 14 May 2009 15:22:40 -0000 Received: (qmail 5406 invoked by uid 22791); 14 May 2009 15:22:39 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from main.gmane.org (HELO ciao.gmane.org) (80.91.229.2) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 14 May 2009 15:22:30 +0000 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1M4clO-0007oe-72 for gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com; Thu, 14 May 2009 15:22:26 +0000 Received: from h86-62-88-129.ln.rinet.ru ([86.62.88.129]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 14 May 2009 15:22:26 +0000 Received: from vladimir by h86-62-88-129.ln.rinet.ru with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 14 May 2009 15:22:26 +0000 To: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com From: Vladimir Prus Subject: Re: [PATCH] GDB/MI documentation Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 15:22:00 -0000 Message-ID: References: <18954.41627.111280.24736@totara.tehura.co.nz> <18955.48976.690330.445604@totara.tehura.co.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit User-Agent: KNode/0.10.9 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2009-05/txt/msg00303.txt.bz2 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