* wmempcpy
@ 2011-09-27 20:31 Jon Grant
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From: Jon Grant @ 2011-09-27 20:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w; +Cc: linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA
Hello
Just wondering if this could be re-phrased to avoid starting sentence
with "but":
http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/online/pages/man3/wmempcpy.3.html
"But instead.."
How about simply removing "But" and adding a comma after "dest', so it
becomes:
Instead of returning the value of dest, it returns a pointer to the byte
following the last written byte."
-- I'd be tempted to also say "after" rather than "following", to keep
the words shorter!
Best regards, Jon
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* Re: wmempcpy
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@ 2011-09-28 4:48 ` Michael Kerrisk
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From: Michael Kerrisk @ 2011-09-28 4:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jon Grant; +Cc: linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 10:31 PM, Jon Grant <jg-hus3n9K41k0@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Hello
>
> Just wondering if this could be re-phrased to avoid starting sentence with
> "but":
Hi Jon,
I'm not too worried about this.
Cheers,
Michael
> http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/online/pages/man3/wmempcpy.3.html
>
> "But instead.."
>
> How about simply removing "But" and adding a comma after "dest', so it
> becomes:
>
> Instead of returning the value of dest, it returns a pointer to the byte
> following the last written byte."
>
> -- I'd be tempted to also say "after" rather than "following", to keep the
> words shorter!
>
> Best regards, Jon
>
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Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org/tlpi/
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