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From: Randy Brukardt on 10 Aug 2010 18:32
"Yannick Duch�ne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene(a)yahoo.fr> wrote in message
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> OK, sorry, I see: "library item" vs "library_item" (the underscore).
>
> When I see this kind of things, do I have to understand this is a matter
> of unformally defined item (old version) vs formally defined item (new
> version) ? If this was made part of an amendment, I suppose the concern is
> more than typo or formatting.

Right. The second one is also in the syntax font, so it is a more formal
definition of what is being talked about. (The Standard often uses the
English equivalent of a syntax form, but those are rarely if ever defined.
We tend to change them when we see them for a better formal definition,
although there are some cases where that's wrong. [Specifically, "function
call" is generally thought to include infix operators, while the syntactic
"function_call" definitely does not include infix operators. The fun of
maintaining a Standard.]

Randy.



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