From: Gaute B Strokkenes <gs234@cam.ac.uk>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Backend is not a word
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 00:06:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k7yq283y.fsf@cam.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yln13tqwlr.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> (Russ Allbery's message of "17 Sep 2001 15:30:08 -0700")
On 17 Sep 2001, rra@stanford.edu wrote:
> Paul Jarc <prj@po.cwru.edu> writes:
>> ShengHuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu> wrote:
>
>>> while "back-end" is found in FOLDOC. What should we write?
>>> Opinions?
>
>> Any of them would be equally clear, I think. Is "backend" any more
>> awkward than the others?
>
> I believe the gcc folks just standardized on one of these, but I
> forget which one (either back end or back-end). Probably should
> just use the same one they used.
IIRC they decided on "back-end" when used as an adjective, and "back
end" when used as a noun. But you should probably search the
arvhieves on gcc.gnu.org before you take my word for that.
--
Big Gaute http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~gs234/
The fact that 47 PEOPLE are yelling and sweat is cascading
down my SPINAL COLUMN is fairly enjoyable!!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-09-22 22:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-09-17 21:17 ShengHuo ZHU
2001-09-17 21:34 ` Paul Jarc
2001-09-17 22:30 ` Russ Allbery
2001-09-22 22:06 ` Gaute B Strokkenes [this message]
2001-09-18 7:57 ` Mats Lidell
2001-09-17 22:28 ` Wes Hardaker
2001-09-18 7:41 ` Didier Verna
2001-09-18 12:50 ` Per Abrahamsen
2001-12-30 3:25 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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