On Mon, 5 Sep 2016, Sandra Loosemore wrote:
>> 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 ?
> 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).
Thanks, Sandra. I have committed the updated patch below which
makes this explicit.
Gerald
Index: codingconventions.html
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<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
+ <td>"return type" (noun), "return value" (noun)</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>
