Joseph S. Myers wrote:
On Mon, 17 Sep 2007, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
And now to the most important issue of all to address before we can
release GCC 4.3.0. ;-)
In our current documentation we have both "command-line option" and
"command line option". Like other such cases, we should make a choice
and document this in codingconventions.html.
I am willing to take care of that, and also adjusting our web pages
accordingly. The question now is: which of the two variants shall we
go for?
As an adjective I think it should be "command-line"; I'm sure Sandra will
correct me if I'm wrong here.
As an adjective immediately preceding the noun it modifies, yes, it
should be hyphenated: "command-line option". But if you use "command
line" as a noun, use the unhyphenated form; e.g., "use the -foo option
on the command line".
-Sandra
