On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 1:56 AM, Richard Hipp <d...@sqlite.org> wrote:
> On 7/10/17, jungle Boogie <jungleboog...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > One very minor update to browse.c to add a comma: > > I don't think that comma is correct. The most important comma rule I > was taught in 8th grade was "if in doubt, leave it out". And I don't > see a compelling reason to include that comma. > In related news, i stumbled across this some weeks ago and found it interesting: http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/oxford-comma-defenders-rejoice-judge-bases-ruling-punctuation-n734371 Summary: a Judge ruled that the lack of a single comma changed the meaning of a union workers' contract, ruling that the contract (for want of a single comma) provided workers with some sort of overtime pay benefits which were not intended by the contract's authors. "The court concludes that at best the phrase is ambiguous. In other words, the text by itself just doesn’t tell us the right answer syntactically," Samuel said. "So we have to rely on a substantive presumption in favor of workers, which the court says is used in Maine law to resolve ambiguities like this." -- ----- stephan beal http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/ "Freedom is sloppy. But since tyranny's the only guaranteed byproduct of those who insist on a perfect world, freedom will have to do." -- Bigby Wolf
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