Hi Luca!
Luca Saiu posit...@gnu.org writes:
I've reproduced the problem by using the example in
doc/example-smob/
which is much simpler than my own code; the failure is identical.
[luca@optimum
~/projects-by-others/guile-from-git-mainline/doc/example-smob]$ ./myguile
GNU Guile
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
Hi,
On 02/13/11 08:00, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
Hi Neil,
* Neil Jerram wrote on Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 01:49:43AM CET:
Ralf Wildenhues writes:
--- a/doc/ref/compiler.texi
+++ b/doc/ref/compiler.texi
@@ -855,7 +855,7 @@ for more information about
- Some abbreviations are spelt creatively. The Latin 'id est' is
usually abbreviated 'i.e.' without an intervening space, and for
good
spacing you either need a comma right afterwards, or '@:'. Same
with
'e.g.'. Find lots of instances with:
git grep '\[Ii][. ]*e\.[^,@]'
Hello Mark,
* Mark Harig wrote on Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 09:48:24PM CET:
Both i.e. and e.g. should always be followed by a comma.
Well. Let me tell you. I've written those kinds of patches before,
adding a comma unconditionally and all. After a few maintainers of
some packages rejected them,
Both i.e. and e.g. should always be followed by a comma.
Well. Let me tell you. I've written those kinds of patches before,
adding a comma unconditionally and all. After a few maintainers of
some packages rejected them, I've become less enthused.
Something that's long been a mystery to
Hi,all,
Today, I built guile from Git repository,
but have some warnings and 2 errors.
warnings and errors :
-cut here:start-
gc.c: In function 'scm_gc_dump':
gc.c:333: warning: implicit declaration of function 'GC_dump'
memoize.c:478:***Mismatching FUNC_NAME. Should be: `#define
Also, while the Chicago Manual of Style recommends it, some other
online
grammar sites mention that it is American English style, but
British
English would not add a comma afterwards.
My feeling is consistent with that. I'm British, and I'd say there
are
lots of cases where it is
Some of the discussion below was getting too far off-topic from the
question of whether to follow i.e. and e.g. with commas in all
instances or not to follow i.e. and e.g. with commas in any
instance,
so I have written a response in a separate message.
Both i.e. and e.g. should always be
