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From: bertrand@eiffel.UUCP (Bertrand Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel
Subject: Re: Bugs in Eiffel 2.2 Level A MicroVax/Ultrix
Summary: Verite en deca de l'Atlantique...
Message-ID: <214@eiffel.UUCP>
Date: 21 Dec 89 21:28:10 GMT
References: <1989Dec19.165420.7477@cs.tcd.ie>
Organization: Interactive Software Engineering, Santa Barbara CA
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<1989Dec19.165420.7477@cs.tcd.ie>, by donnelly@cs.tcd.ie (Alexis
Donnelly) includes a comment which is too tempting to pass:

>   6. "canceled" is spelt wrong in the output when ec cancels a particular
>      compilation pass. It should be "cancelled" !!!
> 

    Both the Unix ``spell'' command (which I wouldn't, however, trust
as the final arbiter) and my big ``Webster's Deluxe Unabridged
Dictionary'', Dorset & Baber, Second Edition, accept both ``cancelled''
and ``canceled''. (As an aside, the dictionary accepts ``spelt'' but the
Unix command rejects it!)

    This may be a case of British vs. American spelling,
although ``spell -b'' (``British usage'') also accepts both. This option
of ``spell'' is openly advertized as a fake, however. I don't have
a trustworthy British dictionary within reach of hand.

	This nitpicking is not a device to avoid answering the other
(non-grammatical) aspects of Prof. Donnelly's message. I or someone else
will post an answer shortly.
-- 
-- Bertrand Meyer
bertrand@eiffel.com