Quick googling yields - https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/204006/cannot-vs-can-not
On Tuesday, June 27, 2017 at 6:29:44 PM UTC+2, Tatu Saloranta wrote: > > Quick question: I would appreciate quite sanity check on this PR > > https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-databind/pull/1681 > > which proposes to change wording of comments and exception messages so > that "cannot" would be used in place of "can not" in most (or all?) > instances. I do not feel qualified to really comment on this, so I was > hoping a native speaker or two could confirm this makes sense. > > My only concern (assuming new wording is better here) is that existing > code may be using check for existing exact phrasing. This may or may > not be big concern (plus there are often changes in individual > messages over minor versions), but since change has potential for > adverse effects (over just keeping things as is) I want to be > conservative here. > > -+ Tatu +- > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jackson-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
