Re: [PATCH] Edit user manual for grammar

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Andy Parkins <andyparkins@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> "last-resort" doesn't need to be compound because separated it still 
> means "the resort that is last".

The context was "a last-resort method".  In this case, I consider the
hyphen necessary in order to keep the adjectivization connected.

-- 
David Kastrup

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