Re: Typo in plperl doc ?

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: "Jehan-Guillaume (ioguix) de Rorthais" <ioguix(at)free(dot)fr>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Typo in plperl doc ?
Date: 2010-06-14 15:13:38
Message-ID: AANLkTik099Os2g5tDpU6RvMGtUgZtw7vRKSVyyqO6hl5@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> wrote:
> Robert Haas wrote:
>>> Ok, so shouldn't it be
>>>
>>> "The <varname>%_SHARED</varname> variable and other global state(s?)
>>> within the language *are* public data"
>>>
>>> ?
>> It seems correct to me as-is, but I just work here.
>
> Umm, you don't say "Joe and Mary is people." (Or I hope you don't.) So "are"
> looks correct here to me. If the subject of the verb is plural then the verb
> should be in the plural form.

Yeah, you might be right. I won't attempt to explain why I thought
this case might be different from that one...

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Robert Haas
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