From owner-svn-src-all@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 28 10:21:38 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6588B106566B; Sat, 28 Jul 2012 10:21:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwatson@FreeBSD.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [65.122.17.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34B3C8FC0C; Sat, 28 Jul 2012 10:21:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [65.122.17.41]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BB41D46B17; Sat, 28 Jul 2012 06:21:37 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2012 11:21:37 +0100 (BST) From: Robert Watson X-X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: Warner Losh In-Reply-To: <523C5041-527B-4DBC-85E1-4AE846B014E6@bsdimp.com> Message-ID: References: <201207211407.q6LE7h9P042318@svn.freebsd.org> <20120721153026.GA8640@FreeBSD.org> <20120723071227.GE85230@FreeBSD.org> <523C5041-527B-4DBC-85E1-4AE846B014E6@bsdimp.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: Alexey Dokuchaev , src-committers@freebsd.org, Garrett Cooper , svn-src-all@freebsd.org, Gleb Smirnoff , svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r238672 - head/sys/dev/sdhci X-BeenThere: svn-src-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "SVN commit messages for the entire src tree \(except for " user" and " projects" \)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2012 10:21:38 -0000 On Mon, 23 Jul 2012, Warner Losh wrote: >>> Never heard about this rule. Sorry. >> >> Actually, English spacing is discouraged in more recent texts; it was >> encouraged during the late 19th century up until the late 20th century >> according to ye great wikipedia [1], but I've read several other articles >> in the past decade that suggest that the English spacing convention be >> completely abolished. >> FWIW, I'd just follow surrounding style like style(9) suggests. No >> reason for fighting over an extra byte per sentence in a source file >> (unless you consider how much added bandwidth / disk space those precious >> bytes can consume :)...). Thanks, -Garrett > > Double spacing is the one true way I learned how to type in school. Since > the 1980's though, things have changed and many advocate single spaces. > However, that's for folks with fancy variable pitch font and such. For > fixed-witdh fonts, 2 is still preferred in some circles, including ours. Source code and terminal windows are probably the last bastions of fixed-width fonts, and given the overt use of white space in code styling, I think we can expect it to remain that way for the forseeable future. Maintaining the two-space separation helps in a number of ways, not least making it more clear when a period (full stop) is used for non-sentence ending punctuation, it's not ending a sentence -- e.g., in numbers lists, and even the "E.g.," earlier in this sentence. :-) Perhaps we should add a bit more information on comment formatting to style(9) and include this point. Robert