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Re: [RFC]: pending break support
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 11:56:04AM -0500, J. Johnston wrote:
>
>
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >>Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 14:46:49 -0500
> >>From: "J. Johnston" <jjohnstn@redhat.com>
> >>+Normal breakpoint operations apply to pending breakpoints as well. You
> >>may +specify, a condition for a pending breakpoint, commands to run when
> >>the
> >
> > ^
> >The comma I marked should not be there, I think.
> >
>
> I put the comma because you can specify a condition and you can specify
> commands. Without it, the next part of the sentence doesn't make sense. I
> didn't want to reuse specify as that made the sentence feel redundant. I
> think maybe the best idea would be to use "or" instead of the commas.
>
> How about:
>
> Normal breakpoint operations apply to pending breakpoints as well. You may
> specify a condition for a pending breakpoint and/or commands to run when
> the breakpoint is reached. You can also enable or disable the pending
> breakpoint.
> ...
Normally English doesn't go in for commas before lists. But your
rewrite reads well to me.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer