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Date:      04 Apr 2002 12:10:39 -0800
From:      swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen)
To:        Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
Cc:        Tom Rhodes <darklogik@pittgoth.com>, Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira <lioux@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG, hmendes_br@yahoo.com, pat@databits.net, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Porter's Handbook info on MASTER_SITES:n
Message-ID:  <yb3cyb5io0.cyb@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <20020403203346.GG848@hades.hell.gr>
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Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> writes:

> On 2002-04-02 12:49, Tom Rhodes wrote:
> > On Tue, 2 Apr 2002 14:06:19 -0300
> > Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira <lioux@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote:
> >
> > > 		'/'. The patch will rely on the existence of this
> > > 		terminator '/' to avoid confusing elements where a
> >
> > terminator,  ?
> 
> I think it was meant to be ``terminating''.

It didn't grep in my local copy, but based on the quote above, it looks
to me like "this terminator '/'" should have been either "this
terminator" (omit "'/'" since it is already referring to the first one)
or "this terminator ('/')" (ugly) or "the terminator '/'".

If the "'/'" is left in, both "terminator" or "terminating" seems
equally suitable.

"Terminator" presumably means something which designates the termination
of an element.  The term is often confused with "separator", but  I don't
have enough context to guess which is better in this case.

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