[Python-bugs-list] [ python-Bugs-762990 ] Awful Grammar in Python Tutorial

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Bugs item #762990, was opened at 2003-06-29 22:45
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Category: Documentation
Group: Not a Bug
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Fixed
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Kurt Dresner (omega697)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Awful Grammar in Python Tutorial

Initial Comment:
I hate to say this, as I try to be reserved about
grammar-bulliness, but one of my uber-pet peeves is the
use of "obviate the need for."  Obviate already means
"remove the need for."  In chapter 9 (at the end of
paragraph 9.1) of the python tutorial I was aghast to
find the sentence, "For example, passing an object is
cheap since only a pointer is passed by the
implementation; and if a function modifies an object
passed as an argument, the caller will see the change
-- this obviates the need for two different argument
passing mechanisms as in Pascal."

Either "obviates having two different argument passing
mechanisms" or "prevents the need for two different
argument passing mechanisms."

:o)

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>Comment By: Raymond Hettinger (rhettinger)
Date: 2003-06-29 23:28

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Fixed.  See Doc/tut/tut.tex 1.191
Hope you feel better now :-)


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