Tue 2002-11-05 14:45, mark lewis (1:3634/12) wrote to andrew clarke:

 ac>> Yes, "ignore", not "strip out".  ;-)  I was
refering to
 ac>> nodelist parsing software ignoring new keywords it doesn't
 ac>> recognise (instead of failing).  Segment merging software
 ac>> shouldn't strip out anything unless it's been told to.

 > many understand "ignore" to mean completely and thus they
ignore those 
 > items when copying or modifying and subsequently those items are 
 > ignored right out of the resultant processing...

 > methinks "ignored" is not the proper word to be used...

Yeah, probably not.  Like I said, I'm not a documentation writer.  I
probably have wouldn't have used that word in the actual spec though.

You may hereby ignore my misuse of the word "ignore" for the
remainder of this message!

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