On Tue, 2002-03-26 at 11:41, Branden Robinson wrote:
> I second this.
Thanks (and to Josip as well).
> We should also discourage capitalization of the first
> letter in a package description. (I.e., don't make it a capital letter
> if it wouldn't be one in the middle of a sentence.)
I am rather neutral on this one. And from a somewhat brute-force
analysis of the Packages file on my system, there isn't a clear
consensus:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> perl -le '$|=1; open(F, q(</usr/share/dict/words)); my
@words = map {chomp $_; $_} <F>; while (<>) { if (/^Description: (\w+)/) { my
$word = $1; if ($word =~ /^[A-Z]/ and grep {$_ eq lc($word)} @words) { print
qq($word);}}};' < /var/lib/dpkg/available > /tmp/capitalized-words
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wc /tmp/capitalized-words =(egrep '^Description'
/var/lib/dpkg/available)
4714 4714 28867 /tmp/capitalized-words
8596 60773 465658 /tmp/zshhwOH43
Granted, this is not a very scientific statistical sampling, as a lot of
the words which begin with a capital letter are also an acronym or a
proper noun; e.g. GNU, GNOME, X, LaTeX...
Branden, do you have an argument for why capitalization should be
discouraged?
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