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Fix typo: incorrect apostrophe.#156

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Fix typo: incorrect apostrophe.#156
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I dunno. NYT style guide approves of the apostrophe but otoh they also would put in periods, and A.S.T.'s really would look goofy. Do we have data on which form is most widely accepted. Can we bikeshed this some more maybe?

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Do we have data on which form is most widely accepted. Can we bikeshed this some more maybe?

....challenge accepted? ( :-\ )

But do not use apostrophes for plurals of abbreviations without periods, or for plurals formed from figures: TVs, PCs, DVDs; 1990s, 747s, size 7s.

So the two possible forms would be ASTs and A.S.T.'s.....some evidence is needed to establish whether AST or A.S.T. is more correct. Let's try using a book because those seem somewhat authoritative in establishing the language programmers use.

On pg. 227 of Engineering a Compiler, 2nd Ed., by Cooper & Torczon, the "abstract syntax tree (AST)" is defined. All references on that page use AST and none use A.S.T..

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I think this has been sufficiently bikeshedded! Can we merge this now? :)

@raphlinus raphlinus merged commit a67da6f into pulldown-cmark:master Nov 10, 2018
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Sure thing :)

@waywardmonkeys waywardmonkeys deleted the fix-typo branch November 11, 2018 15:12
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