On Thursday, October 16, 2025, Sergei Katkovsky <
skatkovsky@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Oct 16, 2025 at 11:18 PM David G. Johnston
<david.g.johnston@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Think of padding as a noun, not a verb. “The value contains padding”. Not, “ I am padding the value”.
>
I'm afraid that adding
another meaning to the word 'padded' in the same text will cause even
more confusion.
I’m just trying to phrase the documentation for bpchar so that the “bp”, which stands for “blank-padded”, is justified. The generic term for the trailing spaces here is padding in the noun sense.
I do understand the terminology confusion with the verb padding. And see why “trimmed” is actively confusing. The prose probably needs to resolve this - and technically does from what I’m reading.
You may wish to move on from critiquing my suggested changes and instead propose something concrete of your own. Provide a third choice besides status-quo and my option.
Though I’m doubtful there is a nice precise hyphenated word to be found here for “treats any trailing spaces as being semantically insignificant”.
David J.
