<div dir="ltr">Legalese is a language unto itself. Could do with a compiler and interpreter if someones up for it ;-)</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 4:24 PM, Richard A. O'Keefe <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ok@cs.otago.ac.nz" target="_blank">ok@cs.otago.ac.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><br>
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On 11/04/16 3:43 pm, Leo Liu wrote:<br>
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In many module headers in OTP there is this sentence:<br>
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%% WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.<br>
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I wonder if `express' should be changed to `expressed'.<br>
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No.<br>
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OED "express, adj" sense 3a:<br>
Of a meaning, purpose, stipulation, law, etc.:<br>
Expressed and not merely implied; definitely formulated;<br>
definite, explicit. Of language, statements, indications:<br>
Definite, unmistakable in import.<br>
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Standard legal language. You find exactly the same words in<br>
the MIT "License", for example.<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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