[commit] Doc: -var-delete
Nick Roberts
nickrob@snap.net.nz
Mon Dec 4 10:29:00 GMT 2006
> > @smallexample
> > ! Â-var-delete [ -c ] @var{name}
> > @end smallexample
> >
> > Deletes a previously created variable object and all of its children.
> > + With the @samp{-c} option, just deletes the children.
> Should this be "deletes just the children"? Or "deletes only the children"?
> The way it's written now "just" binds to "deletes", so one wonders if
> there's "just delete" behaviour and "not just delete" behaviour and what
> the latter might be.
If it were a legal contract, I think you may have found a loophole. For
general reading though, I think the second sentence is unambiguous in the
context of the first. However I don't mind if someone wants to change it.
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