Re: [PATCH v2] rust: page: add Rust version of PAGE_ALIGN

[John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>]

On 10/21/24 11:59 AM, Alice Ryhl wrote:
> On 10/21/24 8:41 PM, John Hubbard wrote:
>> On 10/21/24 11:37 AM, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
>>> On Mon, Oct 21, 2024 at 8:35 PM John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Is this another case of C and Rust using different words for things??
>>>> Wow. OK...
>>>
>>> I am not sure what you mean -- by BE I meant British English.
>>>
>>> See my other reply as well -- I just changed it anyway because Rust
>>> apparently uses "parentheses".
>>>
>>
>> Right. For spoken languages, that's simply preference, and I would not
>> try to impose anything on anyone there.
>>
>> But in this case, at least for C (and, from reading my Rust book(s), I
>> thought for Rust also), "parentheses" is a technical specification, and
>> we should prefer to be accurate:
>>
>>      parentheses: ()
>>      brackets:    []
>>
>> Yes?
> What word would you use to collectively talk about (), [], {}? In my native language they're all a kind of parenthesis.
> 

Good question. I've never attempted that when discussing programming
language details, because it hasn't come up, because it would be a
programming error in C to use one in place of the other. And it is
rare to refer to both cases in C.

Rust so far seems to have the same distinction, although I am standing
by to be corrected as necessary, there! :)

At a higher level of abstraction, though, perhaps "grouping" is a good
word.


thanks,
-- 
John Hubbard