Re: [opencsa-liaison] Use of "may", "must", etc.

[ashok malhotra <ashok.malhotra@oracle.com>]

Hi Bryan:
I agree that this is a problem.  My alternate proposal is that the 
upper-case words indicate the RFC 2119 keywords and the lower-case words 
indicate normal English usage.  But not everyone likes this solution.

Bryan Aupperle wrote:

>
> I believe all of the TCs have adopted use of RFC 2119 keywords in 
> uppercase only and to not use the keywords in lower-case form at all, 
> using synonyms when necessary.  We have started scrubbing the C++ spec 
> to eliminate use of "may", "must", etc. and found that some rather 
> awkward language can result   Has anyone else started this exercise 
> and how are your results?
>
> Bryan Aupperle, Ph.D.
> STSM, WebSphere Enterprise Platform Software Solution Architect
> Master Inventor
>
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All the best, Ashok