'constitute' is the word. Re: r29540 - docs/Perl6/Spec

[Richard Hainsworth]

Suggest:
=head1 Regexes constitute a first-class language, rather than just being 
strings


Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:

On Jan 16, 2010, at 01:47 , pugs-comm...@feather.perl6.nl wrote:

-=head1 Regexes are now first-class language, not strings
+=head1 Regexes are now a first-class language, not strings



I'm not sure if that's the correct reading, or ...now first-class 
language [elements].  Or possibly using language as a collective 
concept (compare `$phrase' is now acceptable language in a natural 
language context).

Re: r29540 - docs/Perl6/Spec

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On Jan 16, 2010, at 01:47 , pugs-comm...@feather.perl6.nl wrote:

-=head1 Regexes are now first-class language, not strings
+=head1 Regexes are now a first-class language, not strings



I'm not sure if that's the correct reading, or ...now first-class  
language [elements].  Or possibly using language as a collective  
concept (compare `$phrase' is now acceptable language in a natural  
language context).


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r29540 - docs/Perl6/Spec

[pugs-commits]

Author: diakopter
Date: 2010-01-16 07:47:34 +0100 (Sat, 16 Jan 2010)
New Revision: 29540

Modified:
   docs/Perl6/Spec/S05-regex.pod
Log:
[S05] typo?, grammaro?

Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S05-regex.pod
===
--- docs/Perl6/Spec/S05-regex.pod   2010-01-16 06:05:57 UTC (rev 29539)
+++ docs/Perl6/Spec/S05-regex.pod   2010-01-16 06:47:34 UTC (rev 29540)
@@ -1800,7 +1800,7 @@
 
 =back
 
-=head1 Regexes are now first-class language, not strings
+=head1 Regexes are now a first-class language, not strings
 
 =over
 
@@ -2605,7 +2605,7 @@
 be modified unless you know how to create and propagate match states.
 All regexes actually return match states even when you think they're
 returning something else, because the match states keep track of
-the success and failures of the pattern for you.
+the successes and failures of the pattern for you.
 
 Fortunately, when you just want to return a different abstract result along 
with
 the default concrete CMatch object, you may associate your return value with