Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2012 11:21:37 +0100 (BST) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@freebsd.org>, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r238672 - head/sys/dev/sdhci Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1207281119330.53430@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <523C5041-527B-4DBC-85E1-4AE846B014E6@bsdimp.com> References: <201207211407.q6LE7h9P042318@svn.freebsd.org> <20120721153026.GA8640@FreeBSD.org> <20120723071227.GE85230@FreeBSD.org> <CAGH67wR4aug9mF=UDc6w6AuiDyE0LQ7d38ffGDqtWQ_jRt0uKw@mail.gmail.com> <523C5041-527B-4DBC-85E1-4AE846B014E6@bsdimp.com>
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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
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