Re: A question regarding dictionary entries
| From: | Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, August 2, 2007, 13:21 |
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Hallo!
On Thu, 2 Aug 2007 14:06:23 +0200, Henrik Theiling wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Jörg Rhiemeier writes:
> >...
> > You should gloss it as 32, or better, 4*8, but *not* as 40 because
> > it is a different number.
>
> Or use 040 as in C/C++/Java/Perl/... At least programmers could read
> it then.
If they expect to find this convention in a dictionary. Most people
(including many programmers, who may be aware of this convention,
but won't expect to find it in a conlang dictionary) will merely
wonder what the leading zero means, and read it as "40".
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