On 09/01/2016 01:04 PM, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
On Wed, 29 Aug 2012, Sandra Loosemore wrote:* doc/invoke.texi: Fix numerous typos and punctuation/grammatical errors throughout the file. Re-word some awkward sentences and paragraphs.I noticed you changed return-value and return-type to their variants without a dash. Would it make sense to add the following to https://gcc.gnu.org/codingconventions.html#Spelling ? Gerald Index: codingconventions.html =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/codingconventions.html,v retrieving revision 1.76 diff -u -r1.76 codingconventions.html --- codingconventions.html 16 Aug 2016 09:24:33 -0000 1.76 +++ codingconventions.html 1 Sep 2016 19:02:58 -0000 @@ -457,6 +457,11 @@ <td></td> </tr> <tr> + <td>"return type", "return value"</td> + <td>"return-type", "return-value"</td> + <td></td> + </tr> + <tr> <td>"run time" (noun), "run-time" (adjective); the time at which the program is run</td> <td>"runtime"</td>
Perhaps add here that "return type" and "return value" are nouns. It would be correct to hyphenate them if they were used as adjective phrases immediately before a noun (although I'm having trouble coming up with an example of such usage that would make any sense).
-Sandra
