Michael G Schwern wrote:
What it does add is MAINTENANCE COST. Maintaining an extreme level
of grammatical correctness and consistency over a large collection with
multiple authors takes time and effort not just from the person doing the
initial grammar fix but from all the CPAN authors who
Michael G Schwern wrote:
[...]
While I thank you very much for the effort to scan the documentation to find
grammar nits, and I realize Open Source is about scratching an itch, software
is about change management. Which is why I say to stop fiddling with the
(ie/i.e.)'s, the (eg/e.g.)'s, the
Michael == Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Michael I'm going to come at this from a different angle. One that
Michael says leave it as ie/eg or perhaps simply who cares?
Michael because the effort to correct all the ie's and eg's and it's
Michael and [ae]ffects just doesn't seem
On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 01:04:00PM -0400, Mark Jason Dominus wrote:
I was struck by one of my own: exempli gratia being abbreviated to eg or
eg., rather than e.g.
I would like to suggest that Latin is obscure, and latin abbreviations
are doubly obscure. There is no space constraint that
David Landgren wrote on Wed, 07 Sep 2005 18:13:22 +0200
in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Following on from Steve Peters' id est is i.e. peeve:
One ponders just how many peters one might (not) be discussing here? :-)
(Hint: an apostrophe is *never* pronounced as anything whatsoever. How can
an entire
Porters,
Following on from Steve Peters' id est is i.e. peeve:
http://www.mail-archive.com/perl5-porters@perl.org/msg89902.html
I was struck by one of my own: exempli gratia being abbreviated to eg or
eg., rather than e.g.
Before sending off an unappliable patch, I was wondering what was
On Wed, 07 Sep 2005 18:13:22 +0200, David Landgren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Porters,
Following on from Steve Peters' id est is i.e. peeve:
http://www.mail-archive.com/perl5-porters@perl.org/msg89902.html
I was struck by one of my own: exempli gratia being abbreviated to eg or
eg.,
Following on from Steve Peters' id est is i.e. peeve:
http://www.mail-archive.com/perl5-porters@perl.org/msg89902.html
I was struck by one of my own: exempli gratia being abbreviated to eg or
eg., rather than e.g.
I would like to suggest that Latin is obscure, and latin abbreviations
On 9/7/05, Mark Jason Dominus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would like to suggest that Latin is obscure, and latin abbreviations
are doubly obscure. There is no space constraint that should require
us to use e.g. in place of for example. Using i.e. in place of
that is is even sillier. (57%
Rafael Garcia-Suarez:
On 9/7/05, Mark Jason Dominus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would like to suggest that Latin is obscure, and latin abbreviations
are doubly obscure. There is no space constraint that should require
us to use e.g. in place of for example. Using i.e. in place of
that
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