Re: Incorrect use of "an" and "a" in code comments and docs

From: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
To: Postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Incorrect use of "an" and "a" in code comments and docs
Date: 2018-03-05 05:42:14
Message-ID: 20180305054214.GC2266@paquier.xyz
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On Mon, Mar 05, 2018 at 01:58:54PM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> While looking at something else, I have one one occurence of $subject.
> Looking more deeply at the code I have found 10 more of them, like:
> - sinval is a signal invalidation, so it seems to me that "a" is
> correct, not "an".
> - I bumped into "an" being used instead of "and" in the GIN code.
> - config/c-library.m4 also includes one. If that code is from somewhere
> else, fixing this typo would not be appropriate perhaps?
>
> Attached is a proposal of patch to fix all those things.

And of course I forgot to attach the actual patch. (Thanks Thomas for
telling me off-list).
--
Michael

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pg-code-pronouns.patch text/x-diff 5.9 KB

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