On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 8:42 PM, Gary Oberbrunner <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 1:32 PM, anatoly techtonik <[email protected]> wrote: >> I am reading CHANGES.txt: >> ... >> and integrated with the C and C++ linking. NB This is only tested >> with >> D v2, D v1 is now deprecated. >> ... >> >> What is NB? The most closest I can find in Wikipedia is >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nota_bene but my brain hurts >> when I try to translate the exact meaning into my native >> language. >> >> Can we try to be simple? > > NB does indeed mean "nota bene", which translates as "note well". > It's pretty common in English, although it's from Latin. > Other similar abbreviations are e.g. for "exempli gratia" and i.e. for > "id est" as well as the very common etc. ("et cetera") There are lots > of these, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Latin_abbreviations > for more. > (I usually write N.B. rather than NB for clarity; I'd accept a pull > request to fix that. ;-) )
Ok. I thought that note is a boolean action. There is no thing like "badly noted" - people either note or miss something, so how can you "note well"? "Note and check twice that you've understood". I'll replace it with just note then. -- anatoly t. _______________________________________________ Scons-dev mailing list [email protected] http://two.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/scons-dev
