From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8332 invoked by alias); 18 Sep 2002 20:19:55 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 8325 invoked from network); 18 Sep 2002 20:19:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO jackfruit.Stanford.EDU) (171.64.38.136) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 18 Sep 2002 20:19:55 -0000 Received: (from carlton@localhost) by jackfruit.Stanford.EDU (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g8IKJi621620; Wed, 18 Sep 2002 13:19:44 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: jackfruit.Stanford.EDU: carlton set sender to carlton@math.stanford.edu using -f To: Michael Snyder Cc: jingham@apple.com, klee@apple.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Decide: "Objective-C" or "Objective C"? References: <3D88DCF4.822ED319@redhat.com> From: David Carlton Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 13:19:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <3D88DCF4.822ED319@redhat.com> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.4 (Common Lisp) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2002-09/txt/msg00422.txt.bz2 On Wed, 18 Sep 2002 13:07:16 -0700, Michael Snyder said: > Also, first question: Should the name of the language (in comments > etc.) be "Objective-C", or "Objective C" (hyphen or no)? I'm not whom you've addressed this to, but I wanted to throw in my grammatical two cents. I assume the language is named Objective C rather than Objective-C; if not, it should be. But: if the words are being used as an adjective, I'm pretty sure you should write it as Objective-C. So, for example, "The Objective-C compiler compiles the programming language named 'Objective C'." (Whereas "The objective C compiler compiles code written the C programming language just as it's supposed to, even if the code in question was written by its dearest friend.") But, of course, that's just my opinion; if actual practice is consistently different from the above then obviously you should go with actual practice. And my opinion might even be wrong about the grammatical niceties, even aside from actual practice. David Carlton carlton@math.stanford.edu