[PATCH 2 of 4] transplant: use Oxford comma

Brendan Cully brendan at kublai.com
Mon Dec 7 15:46:00 CST 2015


I think it's better as "or" here, but I am all for the Oxford comma.

On Monday, 07 December 2015 at 16:28, timeless wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 4:11 PM, Brendan Cully <brendan at kublai.com> wrote:
> >> -            raise error.Abort(_('no source URL, branch revision or revision '
> >> +            raise error.Abort(_('no source URL, branch revision, nor revision '
> >
> > Are you sure "nor" is correct there?
> 
> No, I'm not sure :)
> 
> http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/103148/neither-nor-nor-more-than-one-nor
> Kipling at least was ok with using a `nor` and not always including it
> between each item.
> 
> Beyond that, I'm much more interested in the comma than the nor, so if
> someone wants to take the comma only, I'd be quite happy w/ that. We
> can figure out `nor` later...
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