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To: Daniel Gustafsson <[email protected]>
Cc: Robin Dupret <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Developers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix a tiny typo in the documentation
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2025 06:38:34 -0700
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On Wednesday, January 22, 2025, Daniel Gustafsson <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On 22 Jan 2025, at 11:23, Daniel Gustafsson <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> On 22 Jan 2025, at 09:27, Robin Dupret <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >> - special provision: you must write
> >> + special provision you must write:
> >
> > Nice catch, will fix.
>
> Re-reading it I think both placements of ':' are grammatically correct (not
> being a native speaker might trick me). The current one is, I'm sure,
> intentional but I agree it looks a bit odd to continue the sentence into a
> <programlisting> block and ending it without punctuation. For now I'm
> inclined
> to leave it though.
>
>
The colon does belong after provision, not write. If the colon is
bothersome rewrite to avoid it altogether. But the status quo works for me.
David J.
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