Subj : human-readable nodelist format
To : mark lewis
From : andrew clarke
Date : Wed Nov 06 2002 07:55 am
Tue 2002-11-05 14:45, mark lewis (1:3634/12) wrote to andrew clarke:
ac>> Yes, "ignore", not "strip out". ;-) I was refering to
ac>> nodelist parsing software ignoring new keywords it doesn't
ac>> recognise (instead of failing). Segment merging software
ac>> shouldn't strip out anything unless it's been told to.
> many understand "ignore" to mean completely and thus they ignore those
> items when copying or modifying and subsequently those items are
> ignored right out of the resultant processing...
> methinks "ignored" is not the proper word to be used...
Yeah, probably not. Like I said, I'm not a documentation writer. I probably
have wouldn't have used that word in the actual spec though.
You may hereby ignore my misuse of the word "ignore" for the remainder of this
message!
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