[whatwg] 2.3 editorial: operators, operations, or ?

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Sat Aug 15 04:40:31 PDT 2009


On Mon, 10 Aug 2009, Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
>
> "This specification defines several comparison operators for strings."
> 
> Really, operators? Is this the right word here? Maybe it should be 
> "several comparison operations on strings" or "several possible 
> comparisons for strings.

What's wrong with operators? They are literally functions that the rest of 
the spec uses, it seems like the right word here.

-- 
Ian Hickson               U+1047E                )\._.,--....,'``.    fL
http://ln.hixie.ch/       U+263A                /,   _.. \   _\  ;`._ ,.
Things that are impossible just take longer.   `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'



More information about the whatwg mailing list