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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.

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Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
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