Re: [PATCH v2] rust: page: add Rust version of PAGE_ALIGN

[John Hubbard]

On 10/21/24 11:59 AM, Alice Ryhl wrote:
> On 10/21/24 8:41 PM, John Hubbard wrote:
> > On 10/21/24 11:37 AM, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
> > > On Mon, Oct 21, 2024 at 8:35 PM John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > Is this another case of C and Rust using different words for things??
> > > > Wow. OK...
> > >
> > > I am not sure what you mean -- by BE I meant British English.
> > >
> > > See my other reply as well -- I just changed it anyway because Rust
> > > apparently uses "parentheses".
> >
> > Right. For spoken languages, that's simply preference, and I would not
> > try to impose anything on anyone there.
> >
> > But in this case, at least for C (and, from reading my Rust book(s), I
> > thought for Rust also), "parentheses" is a technical specification, and
> > we should prefer to be accurate:
> >
> >      parentheses: ()
> >      brackets:    []
> >
> > Yes?
> What word would you use to collectively talk about (), [], {}? In my native language they're all a kind of parenthesis.

Good question. I've never attempted that when discussing programming
language details, because it hasn't come up, because it would be a
programming error in C to use one in place of the other. And it is
rare to refer to both cases in C.

Rust so far seems to have the same distinction, although I am standing
by to be corrected as necessary, there! :)

At a higher level of abstraction, though, perhaps "grouping" is a good
word.


thanks,
--
John Hubbard