From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 22 18:09:05 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5748D3AB for ; Sat, 22 Mar 2014 18:09:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qc0-x235.google.com (mail-qc0-x235.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400d:c01::235]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 12D5E820 for ; Sat, 22 Mar 2014 18:09:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-qc0-f181.google.com with SMTP id e9so4228353qcy.40 for ; Sat, 22 Mar 2014 11:09:04 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=WZo6ZXUfLAQvBc/aqjS/KA/x7WoWug4RRMCK0fsgtcU=; b=xA3NYgAFBbOvcTBjXdOZsJl4GLl3BbqDJ2K4xMkGw1reSI+cyDM6Gj2HarXqNWOtbP cO/sLfDdqsec25xQD1qaF2QQQLR0VvXtQJfS6uFVTLwJZ42dwjpe1ppPrWXoOjHjbNYK mWErezzxMAoYqDehOVTZfsKCdJ/0jLF4IbAbBlxPNkhJsLjvh5FxKSY+cRw1roJIMIA0 5dM292ACk6gFt4E7cl5kPpxoKEgT8lt3TzrgBMBLsz2ilUKU/EnacYVrSPx+OnEYVhs+ X/2llwDv2bBhCa9n06CSbZlh8tVm2ywx3x5+hvK+72tPcS9Gqi0clQsSyYkge+wAXMAv 60Xw== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.140.101.244 with SMTP id u107mr1769802qge.107.1395511744214; Sat, 22 Mar 2014 11:09:04 -0700 (PDT) Sender: adrian.chadd@gmail.com Received: by 10.224.8.137 with HTTP; Sat, 22 Mar 2014 11:09:04 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <532D92C2.1030809@m5p.com> References: <201403181404.52197.jhb@freebsd.org> <201403191523.33275.jhb@freebsd.org> <86zjkkr5ma.fsf@nine.des.no> <86fvmbzlbn.fsf@nine.des.no> <86mwgj7aru.fsf@nine.des.no> <1395422417.81853.14.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> <98DE2314-1233-4C12-8346-5D1240B9BAAF@bsdimp.com> <86a9cj6oo5.fsf@nine.des.no> <532D92C2.1030809@m5p.com> Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 11:09:04 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 7meRJYBY75JOIChUhu7zHcE370A Message-ID: Subject: Re: Hello fdclose From: Adrian Chadd To: George Mitchell Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-current X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 18:09:05 -0000 The call to <....> Done. Moving on! -a On 22 March 2014 06:40, George Mitchell wrote: > On 03/21/14 20:51, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote: >> >> Warner Losh writes: >>> >>> It does serve a useful purpose, though, which is why it has endured. >>> If you were to have a man page that said 'Putc(3) returns ...' then the >>> automated tools (and web links) that find Putc.3 wouldn't be able to >>> since >>> it doesn't exist. >> >> >> Moreover - if FreeBSD were written in Pascal, it might not matter, but >> in C, _exit(2) and _Exit(3) are two different functions. >> >> (I'm sure there are other examples without a leading underscore) >> >> (eww, starting a sentence with a non-alphabetic character would be even >> worse...) >> >> DES >> > Etc., etc., etc. Wouldn't it be more productive to spend this effort on > recasting the sentence in question so that it doesn't start with a word > that starts with a small letter? -- George > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org= "