On Tue, May 07, 2019 at 09:00:35AM +1000, Tobin C. Harding wrote:
> On Fri, May 03, 2019 at 09:56:07AM +0200, Johan Hovold wrote:
> > This isn't about any particular subsystem, but more the tendency of
> > people to make up random rules and try to to force it on others. It's
> > churn, and also makes things like code forensics and backports harder
> > for no good reason.
>
> Points noted.
>
> > Both capitalisation styles are about as common for the function
> > description judging from a quick grep, but only 10% or so use a full
> > stop ('.'). And forcing the use of sentence case and full stop for
> > things like
> >
> > /**
> > * maar_init() - Initialise MAARs.
> >
> > or
> >
> > * @instr: Operational instruction.
> >
> > would be not just ugly, but wrong (as these are not independent
> > clauses).
>
> You are correct here.
Actually, I may have been wrong about the first example (imperative),
but the second still stands.
> Thanks for taking the time to flesh out your argument Johan, I am now in
> agreement with you :)
Good to hear! :)
Johan
