Curl documentation bans the word 'very'

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9 points | by keyboardJones 11 hours ago ago

4 comments

  • robocat 10 hours ago ago

    For full list of words see:

    https://github.com/curl/curl/blob/master/.github/scripts/bad...

    Not swear words or DEI. Mostly sane substitutions e.g. fixing hyphenations and expanding apostrophes. Only oddity I thought was enforcing favor instead of favour.

    Comments suggest banning "just" too.

    • Bender 10 hours ago ago

      The file is called badwords.txt but that seems like a sub-optimal descriptor. It looks to be a substitution list word:replacement suggestion. Not really a ban.

      Then from [1]

          print STDERR  "$f:$l:$c: error: found bad word \"$w\"\n";
          printf STDERR " %4d | %s\n", $l, $in;
                      printf STDERR "      | %*s^%s\n", length($p), " ",
                          "~" x (length($w)-1);
          printf STDERR " maybe use \"%s\" instead?\n", $alt{$w};
      
      [1] - https://github.com/curl/curl/blob/master/.github/scripts/bad...
  • DemocracyFTW2 9 hours ago ago

    Well I guess that's a rephrase using an alternative word sensible thing to do.

  • anigbrowl 11 hours ago ago

    404