Hi Bryan:
I agree that this is a problem. My alternate proposal is that the
upper-case words indicate the RFC 2119 keywords and the lower-case words
indicate normal English usage. But not everyone likes this solution.
Bryan Aupperle wrote:
>
> I believe all of the TCs have adopted use of RFC 2119 keywords in
> uppercase only and to not use the keywords in lower-case form at all,
> using synonyms when necessary. We have started scrubbing the C++ spec
> to eliminate use of "may", "must", etc. and found that some rather
> awkward language can result
Has anyone else started this exercise
> and how are your results?
>
> Bryan Aupperle, Ph.D.
> STSM, WebSphere Enterprise Platform Software Solution Architect
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All the best, Ashok
