Hi, Daniel Hartwig wrote: > >> Even for error messages? > > > > Why not? I've never heard of any orthography exception for error > > messages. (Until now for English. :-) > > It may have to do with errors being passed around between programs and > combined in different ways – by leaving the sentence open it won't > look strange when inserted in to the middle of another. *shrug*
That's my only guess, too. But it looks quite far fetched for generalising it so much that it appears in GNU Coding Standards. :-) Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE `- | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org