svn commit: r226889 - head/usr.bin/sed

[Andrey Chernov]

On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 05:40:35PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
> > ==============================================================================
> > --- head/usr.bin/sed/sed.1	Fri Oct 28 20:00:30 2011	(r226888)
> > +++ head/usr.bin/sed/sed.1	Fri Oct 28 20:28:13 2011	(r226889)
> > @@ -343,7 +343,7 @@ can be preceded by white space and can b
> >  The function can be preceded by white space.
> >  The terminating
> >  .Dq }
> > -must be preceded by a newline or optional white space.
> > +must be preceded by a newline and optional white space.
> 
> Thanks for looking at this, but I'm not sure that this is an
> improvement. "... must ... and optional ..." is very hard to parse. It
> looks like what is meant is something like this:
> 
> must be preceded by a newline, and may also be preceded by white space.
> 
> Does that sound right? Also, if you're going to refer to POSIX it's nice
> to actually quote the chapter and verse. That would have made it easier
> for me to figure out what's going on here, for example. :)

"The <right-brace> shall be preceded by a <newline> and can be preceded or 
followed by <blank> characters."

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