On Mon, 23 Jul 2012, Warner Losh wrote:
Never heard about this rule. Sorry.
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
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.
Source code and terminal windows are probably the last bastions of fixed-width
fonts, and given the overt use of white space in code styling, I think we can
expect it to remain that way for the forseeable future. Maintaining the
two-space separation helps in a number of ways, not least making it more clear
when a period (full stop) is used for non-sentence ending punctuation, it's
not ending a sentence -- e.g., in numbers lists, and even the "E.g.," earlier
in this sentence. :-) Perhaps we should add a bit more information on comment
formatting to style(9) and include this point.
Robert
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