@soegaard2 Trust no one.
Is wellformed well-formed?
I’ve only seen the Wikipedia variant.
But … maybe it just means american and british spelling differ here?
Huh… I got this result:
The well-formed result might be bogus, but I don’t think “wellformed” wins
I got:
Try quoting wellformed as well?
I got:
Huh? I thought quoting single words weren’t needed.
Right. What I’m trying to say is that I don’t think we know the semantics of quote here lol
I am still confused - but now on a higher level :slightly_smiling_face:
I would expect the quoted and unquoted variants to give the same result
But they don’t
Reading up on Google Ngram, I think the quotes shouldn’t be used. https://books.google.com/ngrams/info
Personally I prefer the hyphen (“well-formed”)
Seems like you are not alone :slightly_smiling_face:
the rule of thumb I go by is compound adjectives are hyphenated before a noun, separate after it
a well-formed expression / this expression is well formed
“wellformed” looks common enough in tech contexts that I’d say it’s acceptable jargon, not explicitly wrong
interesting! I actually haven’t come across wellformed until now, I’ve only seen well-formed or well formed. Got to love Ngram Viewer
I thought people would use JavaScript and web workers (which, it seems, require no user action to be accepted and to run in the background, even with the tab closed…), didn’t think of CI runners! :disappointed:
On the other hand, I’m eager for more reproducible builds. Ideally, we wouldn’t really need most CI jobs, just running the build locally in a clean environment should be easy and should give the same result as a CI build…
I also had only seen “well-formed” so far, as far as I remember.
Generally I try to keep things simple in the sense that I use existing simpler words instead of combinations of them. For example, I prefer “file name” over “filename” and “well-formed” over “wellformed.”
If it’s Wikipedia vs the Oxford English Dictionary, I would take the OED’s opinion every time