From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
Subject: Re: List of Negative Language rules?
Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2012 21:57:57 -0500
Date: 2012-08-05T21:57:57-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jvnbro$qka$1@munin.nbi.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1949c50a-553a-4d40-92f0-9a5c0663cd55@googlegroups.com
"Patrick" <patrick@spellingbeewinnars.org> wrote in message
news:1949c50a-553a-4d40-92f0-9a5c0663cd55@googlegroups.com...
> Hi Vasiliy
>
> It was easy to redo the grepping with the small c option "-c"
>
>
> :cat Anotated_Reference_Manual_As_Text | grep -c " cannot "
> 279
>
> :cat Anotated_Reference_Manual_As_Text | grep -c " must not "
> 3
"must not" is not allowed by ISO rules, so that wording can only appear in
non-normative text (or by mistake, there are a few in Ada 2005, since
corrected). The correct wording is "shall not", which you didn't look for.
> :cat Anotated_Reference_Manual_As_Text | grep -c " should not "
> 46
Randy.
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Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-05 14:39 List of Negative Language rules? Patrick
2012-08-05 15:24 ` Bill Findlay
2012-08-05 15:43 ` Patrick
2012-08-05 19:17 ` Niklas Holsti
2012-08-05 16:02 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2012-08-05 16:14 ` Patrick
2012-08-06 2:56 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-08-05 16:33 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-08-05 17:10 ` Patrick
2012-08-05 18:07 ` Vasiliy Molostov
[not found] ` <p6ft18dvj55o0h1j3af7ic08f2omoc1j20@invalid.netcom.com>
2012-08-05 19:25 ` Niklas Holsti
2012-08-05 23:35 ` Patrick
2012-08-06 0:07 ` Vasiliy Molostov
2012-08-06 0:26 ` Patrick
2012-08-06 1:04 ` Vasiliy Molostov
2012-08-06 1:33 ` Patrick
2012-08-06 2:57 ` Randy Brukardt [this message]
2012-08-06 3:21 ` Patrick
2012-08-09 21:24 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-08-09 22:00 ` Patrick
2012-08-06 2:51 ` Randy Brukardt
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