Re: fix typos in comments

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Dmitriy Olshevskiy <olshevskiy87(at)bk(dot)ru>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: fix typos in comments
Date: 2015-04-26 17:03:52
Message-ID: 34789.1430067832@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
> On 2015-04-26 12:53:30 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Hm. My dictionary says that "therefor" is archaic, but to my eye it
>> looks just wrong. Certainly no modern writer would spell it like that.

> Mine said that it's still common in some circles, particularly the law,
> so I thought I'd leave it alone. I don't have that much of a 'feeling'
> for english, strangely enough.

Well, a quick grep says that our source tree contains 2 occurrences of
"therefor" (in pqcomm.c and geqo_erx.c), versus 700+ occurrences of
"therefore". So I'd be inclined to standardize on the latter.

regards, tom lane

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