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Re: Add dangling object and unreachable object in glossary.txt

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JSJosef Sipek <jsipek@fsl.cs.sunysb.edu>
Date
Mar 4, 2007, 19:03 UTC
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On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 03:07:43AM +0900, Yasushi SHOJI wrote:
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> ---
> Would it be worth to add these two entery in
> Documentation/glossary.txt?
> 
> English isn't my mother tang, so please check it.
> -- 
>          yashi
> 
> 
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/glossary.txt b/Documentation/glossary.txt
> index d20eb62..ee48009 100644
> --- a/Documentation/glossary.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/glossary.txt
> @@ -73,6 +73,11 @@ DAG::
>  	objects is acyclic (there is no chain which begins and ends with the
>  	same object).
>  
> +dangling object::
> +	An object which is a very special case of unreachable object;
> +	it is not reachable from anything, including unreachable
> +	objects.
"...including other unreachable objects." ?
Josef "Jeff" Sipek.
-- 
Don't drink and derive. Alcohol and algebra don't mix.
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  6. Josef SipekMar 4, 2007
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