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Bug 332334

Summary:

Fix for wrong usages of affect* and effect*

Product:

[Eclipse Project] Platform

Reporter:

Michael Rennie <Michael_Rennie>

Component:

Ant

Assignee:

Michael Rennie <Michael_Rennie>

Status:

RESOLVED FIXED

QA Contact:

Severity:

trivial

Priority:

CC:

curtis.windatt.public, markus.kell.r

Version:

3.7

Target Milestone:

3.7 M5

Hardware:

All

OS:

All

Whiteboard:

Attachments:

Description	Flags
fix	none

Description Michael Rennie

2010-12-10 14:51:35 EST

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #317975 +++

Created an attachment (id=172745)
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 Michael Rennie

2010-12-10 14:53:52 EST

Created attachment 184989 [details]
fix

separated out the Ant patch from bug 317975

Comment 2 Michael Rennie

2010-12-13 10:37:49 EST

applied patch to HEAD.

Thanks Markus.