The call to <....> Done. Moving on!
-a On 22 March 2014 06:40, George Mitchell <george+free...@m5p.com> wrote: > On 03/21/14 20:51, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: >> >> Warner Losh <i...@bsdimp.com> writes: >>> >>> It does serve a useful purpose, though, which is why it has endured. >>> If you were to have a man page that said 'Putc(3) returns ...' then the >>> automated tools (and web links) that find Putc.3 wouldn't be able to >>> since >>> it doesn't exist. >> >> >> Moreover - if FreeBSD were written in Pascal, it might not matter, but >> in C, _exit(2) and _Exit(3) are two different functions. >> >> (I'm sure there are other examples without a leading underscore) >> >> (eww, starting a sentence with a non-alphabetic character would be even >> worse...) >> >> DES >> > Etc., etc., etc. Wouldn't it be more productive to spend this effort on > recasting the sentence in question so that it doesn't start with a word > that starts with a small letter? -- George > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
