On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 11:10:39 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>>> - If set to a nonzero value, contains a pointer to a NUL-terminated
>>> + If set to a nonzero value, it contains a pointer to a NUL-terminated
>>
>> non-zero ?
>
> Yes, that would be better; I'll send an additional patch to change all
> ocurrences of `nonzero' to `non-zero'.
>
>>> - relocatable kernel at a nonstandard address it will have to modify
>>> + relocatable kernel at a nonstandard address, it must modify
>>
>> non-standard
>
> Indeed.
I've changed my mind:
* `nonstandard' is recognized by WordNet 2.0, aspell, various online
dictionaries, and google search results; it is a similar case for
`nonzero' (though WordNet 2.0 does not recognize it).
* I'll appeal to the wisdom of the Ancients [in the computing world]:
Knuth versus Email
http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/email.html
Newly coined nonce words of English are often spelled with a hyphen,
but the hyphen disappears when the words become widely used. For
example, people used to write ``non-zero'' and ``soft-ware'' instead
of ``nonzero'' and ``software''; the same trend has occurred for
hundreds of other words. Thus it's high time for everybody to stop
using the archaic spelling ``e-mail''. Think of how many keystrokes
you will save in your lifetime if you stop now! The form ``email''
has been well established in England for several years, so I am
amazed to see Americans being overly conservative in this regard. (Of
course, ``email'' has been a familiar word in France, Germany, and
the Netherlands much longer than in England --- but for an entirely
different reason.)
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