Re: [patch] minor fixes to gconvert inline API docs
- From: Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>
- To: Sven Neumann <sven gimp org>
- Cc: gtk-devel-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: [patch] minor fixes to gconvert inline API docs
- Date: 01 Oct 2001 10:57:34 -0400
Sven Neumann <sven gimp org> writes:
> Hi,
>
> the following patch tries to eliminate a couple of minor issues with
> the inline API docs in glib/gconvert.c. Is it OK to commit this?
>
> I'm not entirely sure how we would like to spell 'NULL-terminated'. At
> the moment, there are a number of different spellings in the docs:
>
> NULL-terminated
> NULL terminated
> %NULL-terminated
> %NULL terminated
> nul-terminated
> nul terminated
>
> which is the preferred one ?
nul-terminated is prefered.
nul is preferred over NULL or %NULL because the string is terminated
with an ASCII nul, not a %NULL pointer.
nul-terminated is preferred over nul terminated, because in
best practice, compound adjectives in English are hyphenated.
Other than that, the patch looks fine.
Regards,
Owen
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