On Dimanche 25 Août 2002 00:51, Tom Hughes wrote :
> > Some typos corrected in the pdds.
> Applied in part. I didn't apply all the changes to make the vtable method
> descriptions describe what the method will do rather than what it does as
> there doesn't seem to be any point to it.
Well, I corrected it because there is both infinitive and third person,
depending on the method described:
Example:
[...]
BIGNUM* shift_bignum(INTERP, PMC* self)
Returns ...
[...]
void subtract_same(INTERP, PMC* self, PMC* value, PMC* dest)
Subtract ...
[...]
It seems that every mathematical operation (divide, add, substract, multiply)
use an infinitive, but the other words (returns, does, compares, ...) use the
third person. So, one may think there is a rule there, but then what about
the following:
INTVAL type(INTERP, PMC* self)
Return ...
In my patch, I decided to put all verbs to the infinitive. Being a
non-english speaker, I may be wrong, but then we are to put all verbs to the
third person for consistency...
Jérôme
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