filepath.cabal has an extraneous apostrophe

[ohnobinki]

 https://bugs.gentoo.org/296699

[simonmar]

Amazing how many bits have been shoveled around on account of a 1-character punctuation fix. Oh well, thanks for the report anyway!

[igloo]

This isn't necessarily a bug; I think FilePath's is generally permitted, especially in technical documentation, to be clear that you are talking about the plural of FilePath rather than something called FilePaths.

(yes, you could have a thing called FilePath's in Haskell, but that's another story...)

[simonmar]

Replying to igloo:

This isn't necessarily a bug; I think FilePath's is generally permitted, especially in technical documentation, to be clear that you are talking about the plural of FilePath rather than something called FilePaths.

Really? I've never come across that. Do you have a reference?

Anyway:

Wed Dec 16 09:58:18 GMT 2009  Simon Marlow <marlowsd@gmail.com>
  * correct punctuation in Synopsis (#3762)

[igloo]

I don't know what a good reference would be for this sort of writing (as "normal" style guides tell you to do things like moving punctuation inside double quotes, which is bad for clarity when dealing with something rigid like programming). The Chicago Manual of Style has a couple of related things:

7.14 (on pluralising noun coinages) "To avoid an awkard appearance, an adjustment in spelling (or sometimes an apostrophe) may be needed", giving "maybe's" as an example.

7.16 "To avoid confusion, lower case letters and abbreviations with two or more interior periods or with both capital and lowercase letters form the plural with an apostrophe and an s", giving "M.A.'s and Ph.D's (or MAs and PhD's)" as examples.

[igloo]

Fixed in 6.12 by:

Tue Jan 19 13:32:32 GMT 2010  Ian Lynagh <igloo@earth.li>
  * Update to a newer version of filepath; fixes trac #3762