CURL review request

jdrewsen jdrewsen at nospam.com
Tue Aug 16 12:51:19 PDT 2011


Den 16-08-2011 18:38, Nick Sabalausky skrev:
> "Alix Pexton"<alix.DOT.pexton at gmail.DOT.com>  wrote in message
> news:j2dsq0$2aht$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>
>> "...returns the number of elements in the buffer that has been filled and
>> is ready to send." ->  "...returns the number of elements in the buffer
>> that have been filled and are ready to send."
>>
>
> "in the buffer that has been filled" is correct. The "has" refers to "the
> buffer" not the elements that have been put into it. And there's only one
> buffer in question, so "has".
>
> But yea, "is ready to send" should be changed to "are ready to send".

ok

>
>> "Asynchronous HTTP _WHATEVER_ to the specified URL." ->  "Performs a HTTP
>> _WHATEVER_ on the specified URL, asynchronously."
>
> "Performs a HTTP" ->  "Performs an HTTP". The letter "H" may technically be a
> consonant, but in this case it's read as the *name* of the letter, not the
> letter's normal sound. And the name of H starts with a vowel sound (long A).
> (Besides, "a HTTP" just sounds awkward.)

ok

> Also, little bikeshedding, but I think this would be better still:
>
> "Performs an asynchronous HTTP _WHATEVER_ on the specified URL."
>
>



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