From owner-cvs-all Sun Jul 16 19: 1:51 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E2A237B816; Sun, 16 Jul 2000 19:01:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@wantadilla.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA58762; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 11:31:10 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 11:31:09 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Ben Smithurst Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man9 style.9 Message-ID: <20000717113109.D52835@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <200007162046.NAA80035@freefall.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <200007162046.NAA80035@freefall.freebsd.org> Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday, 16 July 2000 at 13:46:44 -0700, Ben Smithurst wrote: > ben 2000/07/16 13:46:44 PDT > > Modified files: > share/man/man9 style.9 > Log: > 1. "braces" -> "brackets" when referring to [ and ]. > > PR: 19894 > Submitted by: Tony Finch > > 2. "brackets" -> "angle brackets" when referring to < and >. For me, brackets are '(' and ')'. '[' and ']' are square brackets, and '<' and '>' are angle brackets. '{' and '}' are braces. I'm sure I'm not alone, and there are probably other naming conventions for these symbols. It would make sense to spell out what the man page means. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message