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el vs ell (Re: Static tracepoints support)
- From: Pedro Alves <pedro at codesourcery dot com>
- To: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 14:49:53 +0100
- Subject: el vs ell (Re: Static tracepoints support)
- References: <201006251931.57860.pedro@codesourcery.com> <83tyoqcc8i.fsf@gnu.org> <201006281326.39820.pedro@codesourcery.com>
On Monday 28 June 2010 13:26:38, Pedro Alves wrote:
> > > +query), until the target responds with @samp{l} (lower-case el, for
> > > +@dfn{last}). ^^
> >
> > "ell"
>
> Thanks. This was copied from elsewhere. I'll audit those as well
> after this is in.
>
As promised.. There is only one other instance of "el" or "ell" in
the manuals or sources I could find (cd gdb; egrep " el(l)?(,|\.| )" * -rn),
and it was the one I copied from. I was going to fix it, but, I noticed
that <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L> says:
"L is the twelfth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet. Its name in
English (play /ËÉl/) is spelled el or occasionally ell.[1]"
So, which one should we use? Is this an American English vs other
flavours issue?
--
Pedro Alves