[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] cpython (3.2): Use real word in English text (i.e. not code)

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Sat Aug 13 03:36:24 CEST 2011


On 8/12/2011 1:17 PM, Éric Araujo wrote:

> With all due respect to the fact that you’re a native speaker and I’m
> not, here I disagree because I parse the sentence in this way (using
> parens to group things by precedence, if you want):

You are right, I misparsed without considering the full context. You 
actually mean "Command-line option-and-argument-parsing library."
But multiple compound-noun adjectives are awkward and the above is ugly. 
Would "Command-line library for parsing options and arguments" fit?

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy




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