A NOTE has been added to this issue. ====================================================================== https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1705 ====================================================================== Reported By: rillig Assigned To: ====================================================================== Project: Issue 8 drafts Issue ID: 1705 Category: Shell and Utilities Type: Enhancement Request Severity: Editorial Priority: normal Status: New Name: Roland Illig Organization: User Reference: Section: several Page Number: several Line Number: several Final Accepted Text: ====================================================================== Date Submitted: 2023-05-07 13:21 UTC Last Modified: 2023-06-15 10:57 UTC ====================================================================== Summary: Use 'to [the] standard output' consistently ======================================================================
---------------------------------------------------------------------- (0006333) geoffclare (manager) - 2023-06-15 10:57 https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1705#c6333 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- These different phrasings go right back to POSIX.2-1992 which had plenty of uses of both "to standard output" and "to the standard output". It has never been considered to be a problem, and I see no reason to start treating it as one. The counts stated in the description give a misleading picture because they include the word "to". There are also uses of both phrases without "to", so changing only those that have "to" would still leave some inconsistency. There are also uses of both "standard error" and "the standard error"; likewise for standard input. Another complication is that "the standard output" can be part of a longer phrase such as "the standard output stream" or "the standard output file descriptor"; those should really count as uses of "standard output" not "the standard output". Trying to achieve consistency here would be a huge amount of work for almost no gain. Either this bug should be rejected or we should acknowledge that the two phrasings are equivalent by adding definitions in XBD 3 along the lines of: <b>Standard Output, the</b><blockquote>Standard Output.</blockquote> Issue History Date Modified Username Field Change ====================================================================== 2023-05-07 13:21 rillig New Issue 2023-05-07 13:21 rillig Name => Roland Illig 2023-05-07 13:21 rillig Section => several 2023-05-07 13:21 rillig Page Number => several 2023-05-07 13:21 rillig Line Number => several 2023-06-15 10:57 geoffclare Note Added: 0006333 ======================================================================
