On Sat, 28 Aug 2010, Bruce Cran wrote:
Log: Fix incorrect usage of 'assure' and 'insure'.
I think some of the `assure's are more correct than their replacement of `ensure'. The difference is subtle -- my small 1960's English dictionary starts by saying that both mean "make safe"; it gives the meaning "make certain to happen" only for `ensure', and this is usually the meaning that we want, but I read `assure' as saying a little more -- that we have done the ensuring and that clients cant trust us to have done it. At least in old drafts, both POSIX and C99 use both `assure' and `ensure', but never `insure'. C99 only has 3 `assure's so it is easier to analyze. I think 1 or 2 of them would be better as `ensure'. But C99 also uses `assuredly'. It would be strange if an assurance or satisfaction of an `assuredly' could not be done by `assure'ing it. Bruce _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
