On Thursday, October 16, 2025, Sergei Katkovsky <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2025 at 11:18 PM David G. Johnston > <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> > Think of padding as a noun, not a verb. “The value contains > padding”. Not, “ I am padding the value”. > > > I'm afraid that adding > another meaning to the word 'padded' in the same text will cause even > more confusion. > I’m just trying to phrase the documentation for bpchar so that the “bp”, which stands for “blank-padded”, is justified. The generic term for the trailing spaces here is padding in the noun sense. I do understand the terminology confusion with the verb padding. And see why “trimmed” is actively confusing. The prose probably needs to resolve this - and technically does from what I’m reading. You may wish to move on from critiquing my suggested changes and instead propose something concrete of your own. Provide a third choice besides status-quo and my option. Though I’m doubtful there is a nice precise hyphenated word to be found here for “treats any trailing spaces as being semantically insignificant”. David J.
