Re: Help: "Increment" as verb

Subject: Re: Help: "Increment" as verb
From: Richard Mateosian <srm -at- C2 -dot- ORG>
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1995 15:04:23 -0800

>I'm editing one of our manuals and have come across "increment" used as a
>verb. According to my American Heritage Dictionary, it's not a verb.
>However, I'm having a hard time thinking of a replacement. Any
>suggestions? It would be used in a sentence like this: "The software
>package automatically increments the transaction ID number after each
>entry."

This came up about a year ago. I've been using "increment" and "decrement"
as verbs ever since I learned to program the PDP-8 in 1966. I was astonished
to hear that most dictionaries don't consider those words to be verbs.

I'd leave the sentences as they are. ...RM

Richard Mateosian http://www.c2.org/~srm/ President, Berkeley STC
Freelance Technical Writer srm -at- c2 -dot- org Review Editor, IEEE Micro


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