[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Appropriate Spec. language
- To: Mailing List Recipients <pci-sig-request@znyx.com>
- Subject: Appropriate Spec. language
- From: sigma@brentwood.bc.ca (Sigma Seven Systems Ltd.)
- Date: Wed, 7 Aug 1996 13:59:46 -0800
- Resent-Date: Wed, 7 Aug 1996 13:59:46 -0800
- Resent-From: pci-sig-request@znyx.com
- Resent-Message-Id: <"flP841.0.ri3.4HG2o"@dart>
- Resent-Sender: pci-sig-request@znyx.com
Daniele Beccari wrote something to the effect:
>... Unless somebody can prove that "may be" is to be interpreted as
>"if you want it can be"...
>
>... maybe future revisions of the spec should have one more line
>to clear up this issue more precisely.
Perhaps all potentially subjunctive phrases should be eliminated
(re-worded) from the spec? (may, might, could, should, etc.).
The collective person-hour savings of head scratching etc. would be worth
the modest effort, methinks.
James
James MacPhail
uo957@freenet.victoria.bc.ca "Think not of engineering as art,
Sigma Seven Systems Ltd. but of art as engineering"
sigma@brentwood.bc.ca
ù