Re: Lua 5.3.0-rc3 - some manual issues.

[Lorenzo Donati <lorenzodonatibz@...>]

On 04/01/2015 18:04, Doug Currie wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 10:55 AM, Lorenzo Donati <lorenzodonatibz@tiscali.it>
> wrote:
> 
> 
>> Same section 2.5.1, 5th paragraph, the first sentence doesn't sound
>> "right" (that "that" is the culprit IMHO, but maybe a native English
>> speaker should check it - I could be wrong here, but there is a missing
>> preposition "in" and that calls for a "which".)
> 
> 
> To this native English speaker, the original version with "that" sounds
> much better than using "in which":
> 
> At the end of each garbage-collection cycle, the finalizers for objects
> are called in the reverse order that the objects were marked for
> finalization, among those collected in that cycle;
> 
> If you want to be formal about it (though the text is hardly formal in
> general, which is fine):
> 
> At the end of each garbage-collection cycle, the finalizers for objects
> are called in the reverse *of the* order that the objects were marked for
> finalization, among those collected in that cycle;
> 

Thank you very much for the sanity check!

Proofreading in a foreign language is always full of such traps when it
comes to "sounds (not) right", no matter how many years one has spent on
that. False friends and linguistic interferences are always lurking in
the dark, ready to bite! :-)


> 
> The other changes are good; thanks, Lorenzo.
> 
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