On Tue, 8 Sep 2020 01:04:43 +1000, Greg Price wrote: >On 2020-09-05 3:01 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > > ... A few years back there seemed to be a >religious phase where IBM ID went on a crusade to remove weasel words >from documentation. > ... >As it was, whole sections of text I wrote for our product took on >meanings I hadn't intended, and sometimes the "edited" text became >outright lies. > Such changes should be subject to opt-in review by designers.
>Anyway, in case you haven't guessed yet, that's what I think happened in >the quoted item from the PL/I LRM. > Yah. I recall a similar well-intentioned "crusade" to change "dataset" to "data set" everywhere (except, I hope, where used as a keyword). But "dataset" is creeping back into visibility. RCF submitted on apparent "outright lie" in the PL/I Ref. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
