From: Robert Haas on
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 3:48 AM, Jehan-Guillaume (ioguix) de Rorthais
<ioguix(a)free.fr> wrote:
> While translating the plperl page from the manual, I found the following
> sentence:
>
> �The <varname>%_SHARED</varname> variable and other global state within
> �the language is public data.
>
> Should it be :
>
> �The <varname>%_SHARED</varname> variable and other global variables
> �within the language are public data.
>
> ?

"State" is a more general term, which would include any information
that is globally accessible from within the interpreter, not just
what's stored in variables. Off the top of my head, I'm not sure if
there is anything like that, but I wouldn't bet on there not being
any...

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From: ioguix on
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On 14/06/2010 14:08, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 3:48 AM, Jehan-Guillaume (ioguix) de Rorthais
> <ioguix(a)free.fr> wrote:
>> While translating the plperl page from the manual, I found the following
>> sentence:
>>
>> The <varname>%_SHARED</varname> variable and other global state within
>> the language is public data.
>>
>> Should it be :
>>
>> The <varname>%_SHARED</varname> variable and other global variables
>> within the language are public data.
>>
>> ?
>
> "State" is a more general term, which would include any information
> that is globally accessible from within the interpreter, not just
> what's stored in variables. Off the top of my head, I'm not sure if
> there is anything like that, but I wouldn't bet on there not being
> any...

Ok, so shouldn't it be

"The <varname>%_SHARED</varname> variable and other global state(s?)
within the language *are* public data"

?
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From: Robert Haas on
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Jehan-Guillaume (ioguix) de Rorthais
<ioguix(a)free.fr> wrote:
> On 14/06/2010 14:08, Robert Haas wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 3:48 AM, Jehan-Guillaume (ioguix) de Rorthais
>> <ioguix(a)free.fr> wrote:
>>> While translating the plperl page from the manual, I found the following
>>> sentence:
>>>
>>> �The <varname>%_SHARED</varname> variable and other global state within
>>> �the language is public data.
>>>
>>> Should it be :
>>>
>>> �The <varname>%_SHARED</varname> variable and other global variables
>>> �within the language are public data.
>>>
>>> ?
>>
>> "State" is a more general term, which would include any information
>> that is globally accessible from within the interpreter, not just
>> what's stored in variables. �Off the top of my head, I'm not sure if
>> there is anything like that, but I wouldn't bet on there not being
>> any...
>
> Ok, so shouldn't it be
>
> "The <varname>%_SHARED</varname> variable and other global state(s?)
> within the language *are* public data"
>
> ?

It seems correct to me as-is, but I just work here.

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From: "Greg Sabino Mullane" on

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> what's stored in variables. Off the top of my head, I'm not sure if
> there is anything like that, but I wouldn't bet on there not being
> any...

I'm with Robert: I don't see much of a problem here. I might even
suggest removing the references to non %_SHARED globals entirely. If
there is something else that is implicitly shared, I'd like to know
what it is. Tim B? Andrew D?

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From: Andrew Dunstan on


Robert Haas wrote:
>> Ok, so shouldn't it be
>>
>> "The <varname>%_SHARED</varname> variable and other global state(s?)
>> within the language *are* public data"
>>
>> ?
>>
>
> It seems correct to me as-is, but I just work here.
>

Umm, you don't say "Joe and Mary is people." (Or I hope you don't.) So
"are" looks correct here to me. If the subject of the verb is plural
then the verb should be in the plural form.

cheers

andrew

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