Robert Dewar <de...@adacore.com> writes: > On 7/2/2012 8:35 AM, Alexandre Oliva wrote: >> On Jun 30, 2012, David Edelsohn <dje....@gmail.com> wrote: >>> IBM's policy specifies a comma: >> >>> <first year>, <last year> >> >>> and not a dash range. >> >> But this notation already means something else in our source tree. > > I think using the dash is preferable, and is a VERY widely used > notation, used by all major software companies I deal with!
Also the dash notation has been vetted by FSF lawyers (and accordingly is used by other GNU projects that pay a lot of attention to getting the legal details right, like Emacs). -miles -- Politeness, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy.
