[mkgmap-dev] Commit r3696: Fix documentation error.

Mon Oct 17 09:49:42 BST 2016

More brackets than you can shake a stick at...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bracket 

On 2016-10-17 05:14, Dave Swarthout wrote:

> So, are these changes included in the new style manual that comes in the mkgmap installation package?
> 
> Also, a small note about terminology. This issue pops up now and again and it's not a big one but I feel I should point it out. When you refer to what we in the U.S. call parentheses (singular parenthesis), you use the term "brackets".  Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't most mathematicians use parenthesis to describe this character? "(" or ")".  
> 
> The term bracket usually implies either this "[" or this "]", while braces (or less often "curly brackets"), refer to "{" or "}" 
> 
> I know certain programming languages, C and Pascal among them, use the parentheses, brackets and braces terminology outlined above. 
> 
> Cheers, 
> Dave 
> 
> On Sun, Oct 16, 2016 at 10:05 PM, svn commit <svn at mkgmap.org.uk> wrote:
> 
>> Version mkgmap-r3696 was committed by steve on Sun, 16 Oct 2016
>> 
>> Fix documentation error.
>> 
>> - Carlos Dávila
>> 
>> http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/websvn/revision.php?repname=mkgmap&rev=3696 [1]
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