From: Martin Sebor <msebor@gmail.com>
To: Sandra Loosemore <sandra@codesourcery.com>,
Gcc Patch List <gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [doc patch] remove hyphen from side-effect
Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2018 23:59:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fa2805d0-2226-1ea0-d09a-983f63d9b8a1@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <67f20d0e-954d-509e-83aa-314dd0f2ba29@gmail.com>
Ping: I will go ahead and commit this patch sometime this
week unless I hear objections:
https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2018-04/msg00036.html
Martin
On 04/02/2018 03:55 PM, Martin Sebor wrote:
> Attached is a patch to remove the hyphen from uses of side-effect
> in the manual as per the comment in:
>
> https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2018-04/msg00021.html
>
> Although both forms are common, "side effect" (without the hyphen)
> is more prevalent in current English and I think it's better to be
> consistent than to have to rehash this question each time someone
> happens to copy the less common form from existing text.
>
> https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/889/when-should-compound-words-be-written-as-one-word-with-hyphens-or-with-spaces
>
>
> Martin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-04-09 23:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-02 21:55 Martin Sebor
2018-04-09 23:59 ` Martin Sebor [this message]
2018-04-10 0:37 ` Sandra Loosemore
2018-04-10 15:50 ` Martin Sebor
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