On Thu, May 31, 2007 9:31 pm, Stut wrote: > Richard Lynch wrote: >> On Thu, May 31, 2007 7:26 am, Jared Farrish wrote: >>>> That's what the 'period' is called in British English. >>>> http://google.ca/search?q=define%3Afull+stop >>>> >>>> In English syntax "period" and "full stop" are synonymous, and the >>>> RegEx manual is throwing "dot" into the same bag. >>> That's very confusing to call it 'Full Stop' when it doesn't seem >>> to >>> actually correlate to the regex meaning it identifies, don't you >>> think? >>> Maybe to a Brit or someone who understands Commonwealth English >>> would >>> know >>> (I was aware of what it meant in CE, I just woudn't have imagined >>> to >>> apply >>> it here, since it looks to be descriptive). >>> >>> Kind've like an elephant trainer calling her elephant's trunk a >>> boot. >> >> @Brits: So is a comma or semi-colon called a Half Stop :-) > > No. > > @Americans: What did the letters s and u ever do to you? As I child, I read a lot of British books, and to this day spell things with 'u' a lot, if the first time I encountered the word was in Brit book... Human behaviour is so interesting, isn't it? -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some indie artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
