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Re: Patches for a couple of spelling errors

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2011 19:06:40 +0200 (CEST)

On Thu, 21 Apr 2011, Julien Chaffraix wrote:

> However seek has a special meaning in programs and even if it is an English
> misspelling, it makes the comment more understandable to programmers.

I agree, as that comment is about what the code will have to do and one of
those actions is to "seek". Let's keep the misspelling. Possibly we can
rephrase it to not feel as wrong but I'm not sure its worth the effort...

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  / daniel.haxx.se
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