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Bug 317975

Summary: Fix for wrong usages of affect* and effect*
Product: [Eclipse Project] JDT Reporter: Markus Keller <markus.kell.r>
Component: DebugAssignee: Michael Rennie <Michael_Rennie>
Status: VERIFIED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: trivial    
Priority: P3 CC: curtis.windatt.public, pawel.1.piech
Version: 3.7   
Target Milestone: 3.7 M5   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows XP   
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Fix
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Fix for org.eclipse.core.variables
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updated patch none

Description Markus Keller CLA 2010-06-25 09:28:33 EDT 
Created attachment 172745 [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

The patch also contains fixes for Ant, Platform Debug, and PDE.
Comment 1 Markus Keller CLA 2010-06-25 09:33:55 EDT 
Created attachment 172746 [details]
Fix for org.eclipse.core.variables

An additional patch for org.eclipse.core.variables.
Comment 2 Markus Keller CLA 2010-12-09 12:36:35 EST 
Ping
Comment 3 Michael Rennie CLA 2010-12-10 14:59:18 EST 
Created attachment 184990 [details]
updated patch

This debug-only patch rolls in the updates to core.variables and updates the copyrights.
Comment 4 Michael Rennie CLA 2010-12-13 10:44:16 EST 
applied patch to HEAD.

Thanks Markus.
Comment 5 Pawel Piech CLA 2011-01-18 00:53:09 EST 
This was quite a big patch!  BTW, isn't Darin's mom an English teacher?