Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 17:58:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass) Cc: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert), freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Punctuation conventions (was: cvs commit: Message-ID: <200006021758.KAA23399@usr09.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20000601162717.04482370@localhost> from "Brett Glass" at Jun 01, 2000 04:29:25 PM
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> >Speaking as a non native english speaker, I must say that I learned in the > >FreeBSD mailing-lists that two spaces were required at the end of a > >sentence... > > That convention dates back to the time of hand-set type and has, of late, > been abandoned. One space is now not only acceptable but preferred in > business correspondence. Please cite an English textbook on this, rather than some stupid MBA book, and I'll refrain from citing MBA books on how code should be written. Thanks, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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