RFR: Cleanup contractions

Philip Race philip.race at oracle.com
Thu Jan 28 22:15:03 UTC 2021


I missed that thread but what I've [*] been taught is that when writing 
you would usually spell it out,
not use a contraction, unless it is conversation or intended to set an 
informal tone.

I would have gone entirely the other way here ...

-phil

[*] used consciously :-)

On 1/28/21 1:52 PM, Jesper Wilhelmsson wrote:
> An attempt to unify the language in the guide with regards to contractions. There was a (very brief) discussion on this on the mailing list: https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/guide-dev/2020-December/000444.html
>
> is not --> isn't
> do not --> don't
> are not --> aren't
> etc
>
> -------------
>
> Commit messages:
>   - Merge
>   - Change is not to isn't etc
>
> Changes: https://git.openjdk.java.net/guide/pull/42/files
>   Webrev: https://webrevs.openjdk.java.net/?repo=guide&pr=42&range=00
>    Stats: 31 lines in 1 file changed: 0 ins; 0 del; 31 mod
>    Patch: https://git.openjdk.java.net/guide/pull/42.diff
>    Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.java.net/guide pull/42/head:pull/42
>
> PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/guide/pull/42


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