On Fri, 2017-04-07 at 12:11 +0200, Christophe Fergeau wrote: > On Fri, Apr 07, 2017 at 11:38:03AM +0200, Francois Gouget wrote: > > On Fri, 7 Apr 2017, Christophe Fergeau wrote: > > [...] > > > > - pointing to a non existing window. */ > > > > + pointing to a nonexistent window. */ > > > > > > > > > Unsure about this one, I'll let a native speaker tell us what we > > > should > > > use here. > > > > "nonexistent" is definitely a valid word: > > Oh, I was not implying it's not a valid word, just assuming that both > forms are somewhat valid, and I do not know if one "sounds" more > correct > to the ears of a native speaker, so I'd rather check. > > > > But as far as I can tell the form with a space and the -ing ending > > is > > not valid at all. > > non-existing seems to be used sometimes though, > http://www.dictionary.com/browse/non-existing has some quotes from > books > using it. So dunno if we should change to non-existing, nonexistent, > non-existent, ... which is why the input from someone else could be > useful.
As a native english speaker, the -ing ending sounds odd. I agree with nonexistent (or non-existent). Jonathon _______________________________________________ Spice-devel mailing list Spice-devel@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel
