Re: Conventions

On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 07:15:45PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com> writes:
> > There is an implied "anything else not noted here should be taken as
> > literal token to type, or a variable, as context dictates" [1] - and since
> > () isn't mentioned...
> > I'd probably rather make that implied part explicit and avoid mentioning
> > parentheses explicitly.
> 
> +1.  I mean, if we have to say this for parentheses, what about
> commas, dashes, etc?
> 
> > I would suggest moving the Tcl parenthetical to its own sentence.  The
> > percentage of readers who will notice or care about Tcl synopses is
> > probably close to zero, and they are likely to be familiar enough to not
> > need our preface to enlighten them.
> 
> Maybe time to drop the Tcl reference altogether?  I like that language,
> but I fear it's next door to dead, so it certainly doesn't need to be
> mentioned outside the pltcl docs.

How is this patch?

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