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From: | Tim Murphy |
Subject: | Re: [PATCH 1/2] Trivial correction on document |
Date: | Wed, 21 Jun 2017 08:56:14 +0100 |
My native English speaker intuition says that "if it were" and "if it was" are both available there. https://english.stackexchange.com/a/146382 cites Huddleston and Pullum's grammar in agreement. Other answers suggest the "were" form is getting rarer, so maybe it's a good idea to change it, even though it was right before.
I just couldn't see the "that that" problem with a line break in between them on my phone screen until a non-native speaker pointed it out. Doh.https://na01.safelinks.---
doc/make.texi | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/make.texi b/doc/make.texi
index dfa4454..343927b 100644
--- a/doc/make.texi
+++ b/doc/make.texi
@@ -1831,7 +1831,7 @@ more recent than it.
@item
How to update the file @file{foo.o}: by running @code{cc} as stated.
The recipe does not explicitly mention @file{defs.h}, but we presume
-that @file{foo.c} includes it, and that that is why @file{defs.h} was
+that @file{foo.c} includes it, and that is why @file{defs.h} was
added to the prerequisites.
@end itemize
@end ifnottex
@@ -10861,7 +10861,7 @@ into a Guile string and provided as the result of the procedure.
@item gmk-eval
@findex gmk-eval
This procedure takes a single argument which is converted into a
-string. The string is evaluated by @code{make} as if it were a
+string. The string is evaluated by @code{make} as if it was a
makefile. This is the same capability available via the @code{eval}
function (@pxref{Eval Function}). The result of the @code{gmk-eval}
procedure is always the empty string.
--
2.1.0
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