On Fri, Apr 07, 2017 at 11:38:03AM +0200, Francois Gouget wrote: > On Fri, 7 Apr 2017, Christophe Fergeau wrote: > [...] > > > - pointing to a non existing window. */ > > > + pointing to a nonexistent window. */ > > > > > > Unsure about this one, I'll let a native speaker tell us what we should > > use here. > > "nonexistent" is definitely a valid word: Oh, I was not implying it's not a valid word, just assuming that both forms are somewhat valid, and I do not know if one "sounds" more correct to the ears of a native speaker, so I'd rather check. > > But as far as I can tell the form with a space and the -ing ending is > not valid at all. non-existing seems to be used sometimes though, http://www.dictionary.com/browse/non-existing has some quotes from books using it. So dunno if we should change to non-existing, nonexistent, non-existent, ... which is why the input from someone else could be useful. Christophe
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