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  • From: flux <flux AT sourcemage.org>
  • To: SM-Discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] [SM-Commit] GIT changes to master grimoire by Vlad Glagolev (42082f14705f4f14953b9c2e82d544791b163fc5)
  • Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 18:05:19 -0400

Remko van der Vossen (wich AT stack.nl) wrote [08.07.02 09:00]:
> On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 08:36:11AM -0400, flux wrote:
> > Alexander Tsamutali (astsmtl AT gmail.com) wrote [08.07.01 08:14]:
> > > В Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:59:27 +0200
> > > Ladislav Hagara <ladislav.hagara AT unob.cz> пишет:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > > - SHORT="a pythonic, object-oriented web development
> > > > > framework"
> > > > > + SHORT="pythonic, object-oriented web development
> > > > > framework"
> > > > >
> > > > > +2008-07-01 Vlad Glagolev <stealth AT sourcemage.org>
> > > > > + * DETAILS: updated 3rd branch to 3.1.0, woohoo! Fixed short
> > > > > desc
> > > >
> > > > Sorry for nitpicking, how did you fix short desc?
> > > > I know my czenglish is horrible but I remember that English uses
> > > > articles. Imho we should also use them.
> > >
> > > I'm used to write SHORT without indefinite articles too. Do we have a
> > > standard for SHORT? If no, we can't blame anyone for this. :)
> >
> > In my opinion, the problem is not that there should not be an indefinite
> > article at all, but that the original was in the wrong place. It should
> > read:
> >
> > "pythonic, an object-oriented web development framework"
>
> pythonic is not the name of the spell, it's just an adjective like
> object-oriented in which case "a pythonic, object-oriented web
> development framework" is perfectly acceptable, other options would be
> to leave out the article as done by Vlad, "cherrypy is a pytho..." or
> "cherrypy, a pytho...." Honestly though there's nothing really wrong
> with any of these four versions, except maybe that pythonic could be
> considered an unexisting word, but hey words have got to start
> somewhere.
>
> Remko van der Vossen.

1) You are absolutely right, I somehow didn't even realize that the
spell was actually cherrypy.

2) I don't know how I messed this up, but my earlier reply should have
gone to sm-commit instead of sm-discuss. Sorry for sending it to the
wrong ML.

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Justin "flux" Boffemmyer
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