Andrew McMillan <and...@morphoss.com> writes: > On Sat, 2010-06-12 at 18:18 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
>> as a non-native speaker, I have difficulties with the use of 'may' in your >> patch: if fields may be unique, they also may be not unique, so what is the >> message in this sentence? It does not give me the impression that the goal >> is to discourage the use of the same field name twice in the same paragraph. >> How about “A paragraph should not contain data fields having the same name.” > In this sense 'may' should be read as 'must', however I think that if it > causes readability issues for non-native english speakers then the word > 'must' should actually be used... > "Each paragraph must contain at most one instance of a particular > field name." > Is that clearer? Yes, indeed, that's what I meant; I'll go with that (assuming that doesn't have a different clarity problem that I'm missing). -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87631o9onv....@windlord.stanford.edu
