On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 15:00:29 -0700 Joe Perches wrote: > On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 14:51 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > On Thu, 9 Jun 2011 22:24:48 +0100 Andrew Murray wrote: > > > + For printing-16 byte UUID/GUIDs addresses. The additional 'l', 'L', > > For printing 16-byte > > You want to resend or shall I just fix it? > > Hey Randy. > > I find your seeming insistence on using a dash > between the numeric count and the word byte to > be a bit odd. > > Stylistically, why do you want it there? Mostly to make it clear. It's too easy to be ambiguous. > cheers, Joe Without hyphen: For printing 16 byte UUID/GUIDs addresses. Those adjectives are confusing. I don't know what that phrase means. It could easily mean 16 UUID/GUIDs, but it's ambiguous. But For printing 16-byte UUID/GUIDs addresses. That means (clearly to me) that UUID/GUIDs are 16-byte entities. Or see www.incredibleenglish.com/pdf/Hyphens.pdf, section 1, "Hyphenate unit modifiers." Or see http://www.ehow.com/how_4473498_use-hyphen-sentence.html, section 1, "Link compound modifiers with hyphens." Or see http://www.getitwriteonline.com/archive/040201HyphAdj.htm HTH. --- ~Randy *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
