Re: [PATCH] Conform to O'Reilly style guide

On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 15:05, Paul Lussier wrote:
> > > If it's 'file server' why is it 'filename'?

> Oh, I didn't know you were referring the *their* style guide :)
>
> I'll go yell at them :)

No need. The rule is that two words get run together when they've been
used together sufficiently long that people think of them as one word.
Sometimes there's an interim period where they get hyphenated.

The rule is not that two-word phrases have to all be compound words or
not simply because they share the same first word. It's "bookshelf" and
"bookend" and "bookworm" but not "bookjacket" or "bookfair."

(All to the best of my understanding, of course.)

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Received on Fri Mar 14 21:52:18 2003