Re: Changed definition of word? No dashes?
Re: Changed definition of word? No dashes?
- Subject: Re: Changed definition of word? No dashes?
- From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2001 13:31:18 +1100
On 10/2/01 8:14 AM +1000, Harald E Brandt, email@hidden, wrote:
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No, they (both in the book and in the pdf manual) explicitly say about Word
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under Strings, that a Word contains:
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"hyphens (but not minus signs [Option-hyphen] or dashes
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[Option-Shift-hyphen])".
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There is no requirement that the hyphen must be surrounded by other
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characters. So to be strict according to this, "-34" is a word.
To be strict, a hyphen is "a short stroke joining two syllables or words".
So when you use it as a minus character, it is no longer, strictly speaking,
a hyphen.
All of which is irrelevant -- the definition might be sloppy, but it's the
actual behavior that counts.
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Shane Stanley, email@hidden