From owner-cvs-all Mon Jul 17 10:34: 1 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from palrel3.hp.com (palrel3.hp.com [156.153.255.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2A7E37B5A7; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 10:33:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcel@cup.hp.com) Received: from adlmail.cup.hp.com (adlmail.cup.hp.com [15.0.100.30]) by palrel3.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03DF215E; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 10:33:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cup.hp.com (gauss.cup.hp.com [15.28.97.152]) by adlmail.cup.hp.com (8.9.3 (PHNE_18979)/8.9.3 SMKit7.02) with ESMTP id KAA02794; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 10:33:55 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <39734383.12FCC14F@cup.hp.com> Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 10:33:55 -0700 From: Marcel Moolenaar Organization: Hewlett-Packard X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ben Smithurst Cc: Greg Lehey , Christopher Masto , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man9 style.9 References: <200007162046.NAA80035@freefall.freebsd.org> <20000717113109.D52835@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20000716225410.A15022@netmonger.net> <20000717142018.D26231@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20000717132026.K84045@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ben Smithurst wrote: > > I don't really care which we end up with, as long as we define them > > somewhere to avoid confusion. But it sounds good, modulo the typo > > that Chris picked up. I think I'd leave out "curly", too: we don't > > have any other type of brace. > > So the only thing you disagree about then is that "brackets" should > be changed to "square brackets". I almost agree -- the PR actually > suggested "square brackets", but Sheldon suggested just "brackets" > instead. > > There is an example just below this text anyway, which I think makes it > clear enough. But I don't mind changing "brackets" to "square brackets" > if enough people think it should be changed and no-one else objects. Given the ambiguity, I think "square brackets" is preferrable. I feel the same about "curly braces" instead of just "braces". JFYI, -- Marcel Moolenaar mail: marcel@cup.hp.com / marcel@FreeBSD.org tel: (408) 447-4222 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message