[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?
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Terry Jan Reedy
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