On 09/23/2015 09:52 AM, John Snow wrote: >>> +Windows platform portability >>> +---------------------------- >>> + >>> +On Windows all binaries have a 'exe' suffix, so all the Makefile rules >> >> This was >> >> "a .exe suffix" >> >> before, and Jon commented that you probably pronounced it as "a dot-exe >> suffix". >> >> Now you've removed the dot, but haven't changed "a" into "an". :) >> > > Ah, I didn't realize he changed this -- I wasn't actually recommending > that you change it, it was supposed to just be an observation. > > "a .exe" or "an exe" are both correct in my mind and you can use > whichever you find reads easiest.
Actually, the full suffix is the four bytes '.exe', when compared to the non-windows binaries. So I'd rather see: On Windows, all binaries have the suffix ".exe", so all Makefile... (note how I cleverly avoided the need for an indefinite article) -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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