Re: fix typos in comments - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andres Freund
Subject Re: fix typos in comments
Date
Msg-id 20150426170805.GE18789@awork2.anarazel.de
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In response to Re: fix typos in comments  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On 2015-04-26 13:03:52 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> > On 2015-04-26 12:53:30 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Hm.  My dictionary says that "therefor" is archaic, but to my eye it
> >> looks just wrong.  Certainly no modern writer would spell it like that.
> 
> > Mine said that it's still common in some circles, particularly the law,
> > so I thought I'd leave it alone.  I don't have that much of a 'feeling'
> > for english, strangely enough.
> 
> Well, a quick grep says that our source tree contains 2 occurrences of
> "therefor" (in pqcomm.c and geqo_erx.c), versus 700+ occurrences of
> "therefore".  So I'd be inclined to standardize on the latter.

Done.

Greetings,

Andres Freund



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