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Editorial: difference between "well defined" and "well-defined"? #1675

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mclow opened this issue Jul 19, 2017 · 5 comments
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Editorial: difference between "well defined" and "well-defined"? #1675

mclow opened this issue Jul 19, 2017 · 5 comments
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mclow commented Jul 19, 2017

The standard uses 'well defined' in 7 different places.
It uses "well-defined" (with a hyphen) in 64 places.

A quick look at the seven suggests that most of them could be replaced with 'well-defined', increasing the consistency of the standard.
@mclow mclow changed the title difference between "well defined" and "well-defined"? Editorial: difference between "well defined" and "well-defined"? Jul 19, 2017
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dhouck commented Jul 19, 2017

According to #1587, it’s supposed to be hyphenated when it’s an adjective. The grammar is slightly different in the cases without a hyphen.

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mclow commented Jul 19, 2017

If the difference is intentional, then this can be closed as NAD. I just want to make searching the standard easier ;-)

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tkoeppe commented Jul 19, 2017

The style guide says that "well-defined" is the way to spell the adjective. The new cases of "well defined" seem to have come in via recent motions; I assume LWG reviewed those before we added the style guide entry.

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jensmaurer commented Jul 21, 2017 •
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Duplicate of #1618.

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@jensmaurer jensmaurer marked this as a duplicate of #1618 Jul 28, 2017
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Uh, sorry, #1618 is about well-formed, this issue is about well-defined.

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[lib] Add hyphen to 'well-defined'
7b41db4 
Fixes cplusplus#1675.
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[lib] Add hyphen to 'well-defined'
70bda63 
Fixes cplusplus#1675.
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