On 05/01/2015 14:40, Roberto Ierusalimschy wrote:
In section 4.7, paragraph before the last, there is a punctuation typo (swapped full-stop and closing parenthesis): (For these two functions, Lua will not call the continuation in case of errors, because they do not handle errors*.)*We always use the stop inside the parentheses when the whole sentence is inside the parentheses. This seems to be a common rule. (As someone wrote in stack exchange, if we removed the parenthetical portion the text should still be correct.) -- Roberto
Yes, I stand corrected.Upon further reading, I was going to signal further instances of this "problem" but it seemed too widespread in the manual to be due to typos, so I double checked from some English grammar sources (see below). It seems that there are two styles of using parentheses, the one I was proposing, which is identical to the Italian style, and then the "entire sentence between parentheses", which I was unaware of. I checked only superficially, but this latter seems not to be used in Italian, and I never saw it in practice. I was sure that the rules were the same in English and Italian.
You always learn something! :-) -- Lorenzo [1] http://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/parens.asp [2] http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/writing/brackets [3] http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/words/brackets[4] http://grammar.yourdictionary.com/punctuation/how-to-use-brackets-in-grammar.html