On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 11:58:21 +0200 Reinier Olislagers <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dealing with error messages, I remember reading somewhere that > contractions like cannot=>can't are discouraged, so e.g. > > Can't find file bla.txt. > > should become > > Cannot find file bla.txt > > Have other people seen this? I'd appreciate links to relevant info. Googling gives lot of pages saying that cannot is more formal than can't. And MS Word prefers cannot over can not. This means: It depends on the target audience of your application. Mattias -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
