From owner-cvs-all Sat Apr 13 6:51:55 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24BE437B405; Sat, 13 Apr 2002 06:51:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: by flood.ping.uio.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id D0EFB5309; Sat, 13 Apr 2002 15:51:48 +0200 (CEST) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: "Philippe Charnier" Cc: Brian Somers , Philippe Charnier , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/make job.c main.c make.1 References: <200204130947.g3D9lM6W011594@xp11.frmug.org> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 13 Apr 2002 15:51:48 +0200 In-Reply-To: <200204130947.g3D9lM6W011594@xp11.frmug.org> Message-ID: Lines: 16 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Philippe Charnier" writes: > Brian Somers wrote: > > I believe that the last time this came up, the consensus what that > > program names aren't capitalised, even if they're the first word in a > > sentence. > I remember exactly the opposite (but I was not able to get the bits > after a search in the archives, so I could be wrong) Both wrong: the consensus was that program and function names should never be the first word in a sentence, and that if necessary one should wrap them in "The ${foo} utility" or "The ${foo} function", as appropriate. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message