[Patches] [ python-Patches-819012 ] Fix for former/latter confusion in Extending documentation

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Patches item #819012, was opened at 2003-10-07 04:21
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Category: Documentation
Group: Python 2.3
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Fixed
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Tony Meyer (anadelonbrin)
Assigned to: Michael Hudson (mwh)
Summary: Fix for former/latter confusion in Extending documentation

Initial Comment:
Section 1.10 ("Reference Counts" in Extending Python) 
has this:
"In C++, the operators new and delete are used with 
essentially the same meaning and we'll restrict the 
following discussion to the latter."

However, the following discussion uses malloc() and free
() (i.e. "the former"), not new and delete.  Either this 
should be corrected to say "the former" (as with the 
attached one line patch), or the whole section should be 
corrected to use new and delete.

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>Comment By: Michael Hudson (mwh)
Date: 2003-11-07 11:46

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Fixed in revision 1.26 of Doc/ext/extending.tex but by
changing the offending text to "restrict the following
discussion to the C case."

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Comment By: Martin v. Löwis (loewis)
Date: 2003-11-06 21:17

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Assigning to mwh, who introduced this confusion in
extending.tex 1.23. I don't think "the former" is more
clear, as it might just refer to the keyword "new", as
opposed to they keyword "delete", which would be "the latter".

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