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From: Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
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Subject: Re: Octal
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2017 15:51:48 -0800
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Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> writes:
> On 01/14/17 12:32 PM, Keith Thompson wrote:
>> Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> writes:
>> [...]
>>>>> supercat writes:
>>>>>> The only thing that erroneously regards 0x123E+4 as a combination of
>>>>>> floating and integer constants is a sloppily-written standard.  [...]
>> [...]
>>> Incidentally, let me remind you _again_ that putting a hyphen
>>> between an adverb and a following adjective, like "sloppily" and
>>> "written", is bad usage.  Your writing is bad enough, don't
>>> make it worse by having it be ungrammatical.
>>
>> This web page
>>
>>      http://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/hyphens.asp
>>
>> disagrees, as do I.  In my opinion, in this particular case, it's ok
>> with or without the hyphen.  Also in my opinion, criticizing English
>> grammar is not constructive.
>
> Rule 3?

I was thinking of rule 1; I didn't read the entire page.

In any case, my point was that the hyphen in "sloppily-written standard"
is not, in my opinion, sufficiently wrong to be worth commenting on.

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
Working, but not speaking, for JetHead Development, Inc.
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