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Date:      Mon, 23 Jul 2012 18:07:16 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>, Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r238672 - head/sys/dev/sdhci
Message-ID:  <523C5041-527B-4DBC-85E1-4AE846B014E6@bsdimp.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAGH67wR4aug9mF=UDc6w6AuiDyE0LQ7d38ffGDqtWQ_jRt0uKw@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <201207211407.q6LE7h9P042318@svn.freebsd.org> <20120721153026.GA8640@FreeBSD.org> <20120723071227.GE85230@FreeBSD.org> <CAGH67wR4aug9mF=UDc6w6AuiDyE0LQ7d38ffGDqtWQ_jRt0uKw@mail.gmail.com>

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On Jul 23, 2012, at 1:28 AM, Garrett Cooper wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 12:12 AM, Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@freebsd.org> =
wrote:
>> On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 03:30:26PM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
>> A> On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 02:07:43PM +0000, Gleb Smirnoff wrote:
>> A> > Author: glebius
>> A> > Date: Sat Jul 21 14:07:43 2012
>> A> > New Revision: 238672
>> A> > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/238672
>> A> >
>> A> > Log:
>> A> >   Fix typo in comment, should be MHz here.
>> A>
>> A> That's nice, but...
>> A>
>> A> > @@ -364,7 +364,7 @@ sdhci_lower_frequency(device_t dev)
>> A> >
>> A> >    /*
>> A> >     * Some SD/MMC cards don't work with the default base
>> A> > -   * clock frequency of 200MHz.  Lower it to 50Hz.
>> A> > +   * clock frequency of 200MHz. Lower it to 50MHz.
>> A>
>> A> ... Why losing 2-space break after a sentence (per what we are =
generally
>> A> adhering and AFAIR is suggested by Chicago Style Guide)?
>>=20
>> Never heard about this rule. Sorry.
>=20
>    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
>=20
> 1. =
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_sentence_spacing#French_and_Englis=
h_spacing

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.

Warner=



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