Date: Sun, 14 May 1995 15:15:08 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: graichen@sirius.physik.fu-berlin.de, rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: some small ideas Message-ID: <199505140515.PAA15213@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> graichen@mordillo:~cc >> cc: No input files >> graichen@mordillo:~c++ >> c++: No input files specified. >> >> graichen@mordillo:~f77 >> f77: No input files specified. >> >> why not: >> >> graichen@mordillo:~cc >> cc: No input files >> graichen@mordillo:~c++ >> c++: No input files >> graichen@mordillo:~f77 >> f77: No input files >Why??? Look up the work specified, also look up what makes a sentence >in an english book. ``No input files'' is a the sentence fragement, >error messages should be complete english sentences. The Gnu coding standard (July 1994 version) says that error messages like these should start with a capital letter but NOT end with a period. It doesn't say anything about them being sentences. Only the cc error messages follows the the rule. It must be the best example because rms wrote more of it than of the others :-). Bruce
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