Re: [Geiser-users] Corrections for Geiser/doc/repl.texi

[Mark Harig]

> >
> > Aspects of the topic per-occurrence basis are discussed in the
> > following places at Britannica.
> >
> > 
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/450964/per-occurrence-basis
> >
> > That is, they have a topic called "per-occurrence basis" (for some
> > reason), and they hyphenated to compound modifier.
>
> You had already convinced me, but now there's no possible discussion 
:)
> Thanks for the pointer!

I had not entirely convinced myself.  My initial reading of the text
was that I was confused by what was meant by "a per REPL basis."
Because I didn't initially understand it, I wanted some clarification,
which the hyphenated term provided.  However, a lot of language is not
determined by written rules, but by "common usage," and there are many
instances of people writing "a per [item] basis" without a hyphen.
Then I prefer to go along with what professional writers use -- the
people who are paid primarily to communicate well, as opposed to
people who are simply trying to get something written, while they are
paid to do something else.

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are
> free.
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