From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 06:28:34 GMT
Subject: Re: [GSoC update] Sequencer for inclusion
Message-ID: <buo1uxwggh9.fsf@dhlpc061.dev.necel.com>
In-Reply-To: <20110711171713.GA5963@elie>

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:
> To be precise, the format used includes
>
> 	strategy-option = patience | renormalize
>
> to represent the effect of "-Xpatience -Xrenormalize".  My only worry
> about that is that the "|" can sound like "or", which would seem
> strange to a user that does not necessarily develop software (so is
> not thinking about bitfields).

How about using "+" instead of "|"...?

I think that would make sense both for bitfield-thinking and
non-bitfield-thinking readers ... :]

-Miles

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