Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 23:50:37 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: Sheldon Hearn <axl@iafrica.com> Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Mikhail Teterin <mi@kot.ne.mediaone.net>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: btokup().. patch to STYLE(9) (fwd) Message-ID: <36B1CABD.BCC90EC7@newsguy.com> References: <90073.917600532@axl.noc.iafrica.com>
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Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > I didn't have a problem reading the sentence, even though you left out > required commas. The only thing that caused a problem was your use of > split infinitive. ;-) Split infinitive is a urban legend. It has *never* been outlawed in the english language, except for some crazy people in this century and, I think, later last century. In fact, when I learned this I saw some interesting examples of very unreadable text because of lack of split infinitive. :-) -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com Would you mind not shooting at the thermonuclear weapons? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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