[mpi3-coll] Non-blocking Collectives Proposal Draft

[Rajeev Thakur]

I just walked over to our editor, Gail Pieper, and asked her the reason. She
said that if the alphabets that the prefix connects are different, as in
nonblocking or noncontiguous, the convention nowadays is to drop the hyphen.
You would keep the hyphen in words like re-establish and also in words that
would read weird without the hyphen, like non-organic (nono rganic). This is
the convention followed by the Chicago Manual of Style, the Associated Press
Manual, and the MLA Manual (Modern Language Association).

> Also, if you do the <pick your favorit search enigne> test (I know ...
> but languages are dynamically changed by their users), you'll see that
> non-blocking seems to be the most-used term in the I/O and 
> communication
> context.

Web searches are not useful for this because most people's English is not
that good.

Rajeev
 
 

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> Torsten Hoefler
> Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 3:00 PM
> To: MPI-3 Collective Subgroup Discussions
> Subject: Re: [mpi3-coll] Non-blocking Collectives Proposal Draft
> 
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 02:49:03PM -0500, Rajeev Thakur wrote:
> > > 1) The MPI-2.1 document has 127 occurrences of "nonblocking" 
> > > and only 8 
> > > occurrences of "non-blocking". What would be the correct 
> > > term? Should we try to be more consistent?
> >  
> > The technical editor in our division prefers the version 
> without the hyphen.
> > She will remove the hyphen in our papers.
>
> hmm, I would disagree - I had exactly the same discussion with our
> technical editor :). She explained me for 15 minutes why it is
> "non-blocking" and not "nonblocking" or "non blocking". 
> 
> Also, if you do the <pick your favorit search enigne> test (I know ...
> but languages are dynamically changed by their users), you'll see that
> non-blocking seems to be the most-used term in the I/O and 
> communication
> context.
> 
> I'm open for arguments!
> 
> Best,
>   Torsten
> 
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