>I'm a little curious about the 'rop' the keeps appearing
in all the
>fuction [sic] definitions. There is alway [sic] advice
in to what to set it do
>but after searching the gmp manual I could find anything
that
>explains it?
>For example the floating point power function.
>void mpf_pow_ui (mpf_t rop, mpf_t op1, unsigned long int
op2 )
>Set rop to op1 ^ op2 .
Daniel has a point: why is the imperative "Set"
used here when the 3rd person "Sets", describing
the action performed by the function (with implicit pronoun:
"It sets ..."), would be more logical?
You can see the confusion one missing letter causes....
Keith
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