| msg119160 - (view) |
Author: Boštjan Mejak (Retro) |
Date: 2010-10-19 19:19 |
| Please read the docs here: http://docs.python.org/py3k/reference/expressions#boolean-operations This is the last sentence in the '5.10. Boolean operations' text): ([...] Because not has to >>>invent<<< a value anyway, it does not bother to return a value of the same type as its argument, so e.g., not 'foo' yields False, not ''.) Fix to: ([...] Because not has to >>>invert<<< a value anyway, it does not bother to return a value of the same type as its argument, so e.g., not 'foo' yields False, not ''.) |
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| msg119162 - (view) |
Author: Boštjan Mejak (Retro) |
Date: 2010-10-19 20:09 |
| There is one more typo bug I noted in the documentation. Please go here: http://docs.python.org/library/locale#locale.setlocale Fix this text... setlocale() is not >>>thread safe<<< on most systems. ...like this: setlocale() is not >>>thread-safe<<< on most systems. |
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| msg119165 - (view) |
Author: Georg Brandl (georg.brandl) *  |
Date: 2010-10-19 21:08 |
| The first one is not a typo. Fixed the second one (and similar occurrences of "thread safe") in r85731. |
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| msg119349 - (view) |
Author: Éric Araujo (eric.araujo) * |
Date: 2010-10-21 22:51 |
| Adjectives require hyphens but nouns do not. “thread-safety” should be reverted to “thread safety”. I haven’t searched for a grammar reference, but you can take Wikipedia as an example: “Thread safety is a computer programming concept applicable in the context of multi-threaded programs. A piece of code is thread-safe if it functions correctly during simultaneous execution by multiple threads.” |
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| msg119352 - (view) |
Author: Marc-Andre Lemburg (lemburg) * |
Date: 2010-10-21 23:19 |
| Éric Araujo wrote: > > Éric Araujo <merwok@netwok.org> added the comment: > > Adjectives require hyphens but nouns do not. “thread-safety” should be reverted to “thread safety”. I haven’t searched for a grammar reference, but you can take Wikipedia as an example: “Thread safety is a computer programming concept applicable in the context of multi-threaded programs. A piece of code is thread-safe if it functions correctly during simultaneous execution by multiple threads.” Are you sure ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_compound#Types_of_compound_nouns This appears to be more a question of personal style than a grammar rule. |
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| msg119365 - (view) |
Author: Boštjan Mejak (Retro) |
Date: 2010-10-22 08:01 |
| All the words that Georg Brandl fixed for this issue are okay as they stand. Please leave them as they are written. Thank you. On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 1:19 AM, Marc-Andre Lemburg <report@bugs.python.org>wrote: > > Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal@egenix.com> added the comment: > > Éric Araujo wrote: > > > > Éric Araujo <merwok@netwok.org> added the comment: > > > > Adjectives require hyphens but nouns do not. “thread-safety” should be > reverted to “thread safety”. I haven’t searched for a grammar reference, > but you can take Wikipedia as an example: “Thread safety is a computer > programming concept applicable in the context of multi-threaded programs. A > piece of code is thread-safe if it functions correctly during simultaneous > execution by multiple threads.” > > Are you sure ? > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_compound#Types_of_compound_nouns > > This appears to be more a question of personal style than a > grammar rule. > > ---------- > nosy: +lemburg > > _______________________________________ > Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> > <http://bugs.python.org/issue10147> > _______________________________________ > |
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| msg119844 - (view) |
Author: Éric Araujo (eric.araujo) * |
Date: 2010-10-29 02:32 |
| Marc-André: I do recall it being a grammar rule. Take for example the difference between the compound noun “a system call” and the compound noun used as adjective “system-level” (in “a system-level call”). Again, I’m not on a crusade here, just reacting on my gut feeling about a minor change. I can ask English professors if you want :) |
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| msg119852 - (view) |
Author: Georg Brandl (georg.brandl) * |
Date: 2010-10-29 04:51 |
| I can only repeat myself and point to <http://www.nerdcore.de/wp/2010/10/19/stephen-frys-message-to-grammer-nazis/>. |
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