Marc-Andre Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> added the comment: Éric Araujo wrote: > > Éric Araujo <mer...@netwok.org> added the comment: > > Adjectives require hyphens but nouns do not. “thread-safety” should be > reverted to “thread safety”. I haven’t searched for a grammar reference, but > you can take Wikipedia as an example: “Thread safety is a computer > programming concept applicable in the context of multi-threaded programs. A > piece of code is thread-safe if it functions correctly during simultaneous > execution by multiple threads.”
Are you sure ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_compound#Types_of_compound_nouns This appears to be more a question of personal style than a grammar rule. ---------- nosy: +lemburg _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue10147> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com