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From: ori@eigenstate.org
To: 9front@9front.org
Subject: Re: [9front] joystick support docs
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2021 18:53:12 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9231DD3AD7FA26A46A8418569CA5892B@eigenstate.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABB-WO9JJdpyTmwm-ts4NiQT7DPkMscFWLniyKBA8BOt=xGfeA@mail.gmail.com>

Quoth Stuart Morrow <morrow.stuart@gmail.com>:
> Nope - apostrophe is preferred for "awkward plurals".

The general rule is that apostrophes
indicate posession, not plurals.

Some style guides suggest putting it
after the word when things are ambiguous,
like so:

	ids => ids'
	as => as'

but as programmers, I'd rather quote
to remove any ambiguity at all, if
needed:

	'id's
	'a's

while it's not standard, it fits well
in a technical context.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-09-01 23:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-08-31 22:54 qwx
2021-09-01  5:58 ` unobe
2021-09-01 10:58   ` Stuart Morrow
2021-09-01 21:30     ` unobe
2021-09-01 22:53     ` ori [this message]
2021-09-02  0:31       ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
2021-09-02  5:02         ` unobe
2021-09-02 12:17       ` Stuart Morrow
2021-09-02 18:09     ` Kurt H Maier
2021-09-01 22:54   ` qwx
2021-09-02  4:59     ` unobe
2021-09-01 22:58 Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
2021-09-01 23:31 ` qwx

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