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Bug 317972

Summary:

Fix for wrong usages of affect* and effect*

Product:

[Eclipse Project] JDT

Reporter:

Markus Keller <markus.kell.r>

Component:

Core

Assignee:

Olivier Thomann <Olivier_Thomann>

Status:

VERIFIED FIXED

QA Contact:

Severity:

trivial

Priority:

CC:

jarthana, Olivier_Thomann, satyam.kandula

Version:

3.6

Keywords:

Documentation

Target Milestone:

3.6.1

Hardware:

OS:

Windows XP

Whiteboard:

Attachments:

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Description Markus Keller

2010-06-25 09:25:41 EDT

Created attachment 172742 [details]
Fix

N20100620-2000

Here's a fix for wrong usages of affect* (usually a verb) and effect* (usually a noun). For further information, see e.g.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/video/affectvseffect.htm and
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/affect.html

Comment 1 Olivier Thomann

2010-06-25 11:04:23 EDT

Released for 3.6.1 since this is improving documentation.
Also released for 3.7M1.

Comment 2 Olivier Thomann

2010-06-25 11:04:39 EDT

Thanks for the patch, Markus.

Comment 3 Jay Arthanareeswaran

2010-08-04 02:17:09 EDT

Verified for 3.7M1 by code inspection.

Comment 4 Jay Arthanareeswaran

2010-08-05 03:52:09 EDT

Keeping the RESOLVED STATUS as this needs to be verified for 3.6.1

Comment 5 Satyam Kandula

2010-08-26 04:34:22 EDT

Verified for 3.6.1 RC2 using Build id: M20100825-0800