"Ilya N. Golubev" <gin(a)mo.msk.ru&gt; writes: You are right. Judging by the number of places you've corrected, this must be a very common misunderstanding. I remember that I misunderstood ＠var{} as well, until I encountered the UPPERCASE convention for specifying text that will be substituted with the actual contents (i.e. "variable" text). This line illustrates both the correct and the incorrect usage of ＠var: In fact, it would be even better to get rid of the "string STR" phrase, and write the more natural: ...but that's a stylistic change that this patch doesn't (and shouldn't) make.