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Re: Boolean

Date	2013-03-07 19:00 +0000
From	lipska the kat <"nospam at neversurrender dot co dot uk">
Organization	Trollbusters 3
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: Boolean
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On 07/03/13 18:50, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 3/7/2013 3:50 AM, lipska the kat wrote:
>> On 07/03/13 01:19, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>> On 3/4/2013 2:38 PM, Lew wrote:
>>>> JLP wrote:
>>>>> Lew a écrit :
>>>>>> JLP wrote:
>>>>>>> Nota : Class names must start with a capital letter
>>>>>> Not "must", "should".
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>>>> This is not a question of knowing English but of knowing technical
>>>> terms.
>>
>> Must and should are not 'technical terms' for goodness sake.
>>
>> "Technical terminology is the specialized vocabulary of any field"
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_terminology.
>>
>> Must and should are not "the specialized vocabulary" of any field, are
>> they?
>
> These terms have a much more precise definition in IT specifications
> than they have in plain English.
>
>>> Just in case:
>>>
>>> http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2119.txt
>>
>> And of course you NEVER use these words incorrectly do you.
>
> Confusing must and should?
>
> Probably not today.
>
> But that is not really the point.
>
> The point is that at some point in time we got it right because
> somebody told us or pointed us to a good source of information.
>
> Those that learn when they are told something gain knowledge - those
> that gets offended does not.

those that *get* offended *do* not

>> Why do you people consistently rubbish posters who's first language is
>> not English.
>
> This is not really about English. The words was spelled correctly

The words *were* spelled correctly

> and used grammatically correct (as far as I can tell).

and used *in a grammatically correct way*

> But the way they were used to describe how to write a specific
> programming language (Java) was not correct.

must and should are not keywords in the Java programming language.

> It would have been pretty bad if nobody had explained
> what was correct and what was not.

Well quite (see above)

lipska

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Thread

Boolean odie4penname@gmail.com - 2013-02-28 23:22 -0800
  Re: Boolean JLP <JLP@jlp.com> - 2013-03-01 09:18 +0100
    Re: Boolean odie4penname@gmail.com - 2013-03-01 06:42 -0800
      Re: Boolean Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2013-03-01 10:25 -0500
    Re: Boolean Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2013-03-01 11:21 -0800
      Re: Boolean JLP <JLP@jlp.com> - 2013-03-04 09:12 +0100
        Re: Boolean Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2013-03-04 11:38 -0800
          Re: Boolean Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2013-03-04 11:45 -0800
            Re: Boolean Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2013-03-04 15:06 -0800
              Re: Boolean JLP <JLP@jlp.com> - 2013-03-05 11:45 +0100
          Re: Boolean Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-03-06 20:19 -0500
            Re: Boolean lipska the kat <"nospam at neversurrender dot co dot uk"> - 2013-03-07 08:50 +0000
              Re: Boolean Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2013-03-07 09:58 -0800
                Re: Boolean Lars Enderin <lars.enderin@telia.com> - 2013-03-07 19:24 +0100
                Re: Boolean lipska the kat <"nospam at neversurrender dot co dot uk"> - 2013-03-07 19:11 +0000
                Re: Boolean lipska the kat <"nospam at neversurrender dot co dot uk"> - 2013-03-07 19:21 +0000
                Re: Boolean Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2013-03-12 09:10 -0700
                Re: Boolean Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2013-03-12 09:54 -0700
                Re: Boolean markspace <markspace@nospam.nospam> - 2013-03-12 10:04 -0700
                Re: Boolean Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2013-03-12 12:02 -0700
              Re: Boolean Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-03-07 13:50 -0500
                Re: Boolean lipska the kat <"nospam at neversurrender dot co dot uk"> - 2013-03-07 19:00 +0000
                Re: Boolean Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-03-07 14:10 -0500
                Re: Boolean lipska the kat <"nospam at neversurrender dot co dot uk"> - 2013-03-07 19:25 +0000
              Re: Boolean Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-03-07 13:52 -0500
                Re: Boolean Lars Enderin <lars.enderin@telia.com> - 2013-03-07 23:27 +0100
                Re: Boolean Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-03-07 17:46 -0500
                Re: Boolean lipska the kat <"nospam at neversurrender dot co dot uk"> - 2013-03-08 09:22 +0000
                Re: Boolean lipska the kat <"nospam at neversurrender dot co dot uk"> - 2013-03-08 08:16 +0000
                Re: Boolean Lars Enderin <lars.enderin@telia.com> - 2013-03-08 10:30 +0100
                Re: Boolean lipska the kat <"nospam at neversurrender dot co dot uk"> - 2013-03-08 15:00 +0000
                Re: Boolean Lars Enderin <lars.enderin@telia.com> - 2013-03-09 01:37 +0100
                Re: Boolean lipska the kat <"nospam at neversurrender dot co dot uk"> - 2013-03-09 08:40 +0000
                Re: Boolean Lars Enderin <lars.enderin@telia.com> - 2013-03-09 09:54 +0100
                Re: Boolean lipska the kat <"nospam at neversurrender dot co dot uk"> - 2013-03-09 09:08 +0000
                Re: Boolean Lars Enderin <lars.enderin@telia.com> - 2013-03-09 11:38 +0100
                Re: Boolean lipska the kat <"nospam at neversurrender dot co dot uk"> - 2013-03-09 12:01 +0000
  Re: Boolean odie4penname@gmail.com - 2013-03-01 07:50 -0800
    Re: Boolean Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2013-03-01 11:14 -0500
  Re: Boolean Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2013-03-01 09:08 -0800
    Re: Boolean Joerg Meier <joergmmeier@arcor.de> - 2013-03-01 18:26 +0100
      Re: Boolean lipska the kat <"nospam at neversurrender dot co dot uk"> - 2013-03-01 19:37 +0000
        Re: Boolean Joerg Meier <joergmmeier@arcor.de> - 2013-03-01 21:44 +0100
        Re: Boolean Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-03-01 18:34 -0500
      Re: Boolean Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-03-01 18:33 -0500
      Re: Boolean Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2013-03-01 17:48 -0800
        Re: Boolean Joerg Meier <joergmmeier@arcor.de> - 2013-03-02 04:03 +0100

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