Re: second attempt to fix this issue
On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 11:24:09PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Friday 30 March 2007 22:57, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > The meaning of the original sentence is
> > It will guess *that* the broadcast address is the bitwise OR of your
> > system's IP address with the bitwise negation of the netmask.
> > which in turn suggests to me an improvement,
> > It will *assume* that the broadcast address is the bitwise OR...
> As it is only used as a default, I would say "assume" is not an
> improvement as "assume" implies that weird things could happen if the
> assumption is incorrect.
Ok, in that case I would suggest getting rid of the indeterminate subject
altogether and writing:
The default broadcast address is the bitwise OR of your system's IP
address with the bitwise negation of the netmask.
or
The default broadcast address offered [...]
> A possible improvement would be "... it will calculate the broadcast
> address as ...", but I've just reverted back to the original text as IMO
> that is fine too.
Yeah, the original is hardly broken, but so long as attention has been drawn
to it... :)
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