[bug #39028] [patch] fix and uniformize four error messages

2013-05-20 Thread Benno Schulenberg
URL: Summary: [patch] fix and uniformize four error messages Project: make Submitted by: bens Submitted on: Mon 20 May 2013 09:27:25 PM CEST Severity: 3 - Normal Item Gro

[bug #39028] [patch] fix and uniformize four error messages

2013-05-26 Thread Paul D. Smith
Update of bug #39028 (project make): Item Group:None => Enhancement Status:None => Fixed Assigned to:None => psmith Open/Closed:

RE: [bug #39028] [patch] fix and uniformize four error messages

2013-05-20 Thread Martin Dorey
g-make@gnu.org Subject: [bug #39028] [patch] fix and uniformize four error messages URL: <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?39028> Summary: [patch] fix and uniformize four error messages Project: make Submitted by: bens

Re: [bug #39028] [patch] fix and uniformize four error messages

2013-05-20 Thread Edward Welbourne
>> I think "integer" is meant instead of "integral". > Eg C99 uses "integral" as an adjective meaning "of integers", How about using plain language and calling it a "whole number" instead of using jargon ? Eddy. ___ Bug-make mailing list Bug-m

Re: [bug #39028] [patch] fix and uniformize four error messages

2013-05-20 Thread Norbert Thiebaud
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 5:53 PM, Edward Welbourne wrote: >>> I think "integer" is meant instead of "integral". 'integral' is the adjective form of 'integer', so, in context, it is correctly used. > >> Eg C99 uses "integral" as an adjective meaning "of integers", C99 and Merriam Webster, Oxford,

Re: [bug #39028] [patch] fix and uniformize four error messages

2013-05-20 Thread Edward Welbourne
>> How about using plain language and calling it a "whole number" >> instead of using jargon ? > > How about not catering to the lowest common denominator and devolving > to baby-speech for fear that someone may be intimidated by a > dictionary ? Saying what you mean in the plainest terms possible

Re: [bug #39028] [patch] fix and uniformize four error messages

2013-05-21 Thread Norbert Thiebaud
On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 12:01 AM, Edward Welbourne wrote: > > In paticular, in the case of "integral", there is a second meaning of > the word (go on, check that dictionary, in case you've forgotten your > calculus) which creates a (completely wanton, given that there's a > plainer term for a numb

Re: [bug #39028] [patch] fix and uniformize four error messages

2013-05-21 Thread Edward Welbourne
> Anyway, I'll stop here on that particular bikesheed. I was just a bit > disappointed with the tendency to want to dumb down everything... ... and I was reacting primarily against the apparently knee-jerk reaction against plain language as automatically - ipso facto, by virtue of being plain lang