On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 2:43 AM, Randy Dunlap <rdun...@infradead.org> wrote: > On 01/08/14 17:46, Laszlo Papp wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 9:49 PM, Mark Brown <broo...@kernel.org> wrote: >>> On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 09:08:44PM +0000, Laszlo Papp wrote: >>>> On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 9:02 PM, Laszlo Papp <lp...@kde.org> wrote: >>> >>>>> That being said, I will not have time, nor the motivation to argue >>>>> over such a nuance, so feel free to reject the change. >>> >>>> Of course, this is just on top of the vim spell checker error as I >>>> wrote in the commit message... >>> >>>> Oh yes, and one more factual data in here: >>> >>>> lpapp ~/Projects/linux-staging $ grep -rn "e\.g\." . | wc -l >>>> 3447 >>> >>>> lpapp ~/Projects/linux-staging $ grep -rn " eg," | wc -l >>>> 18 >>> >>> That's not the issue - it's dropping the comma. It's either "e.g." or >>> "eg", the comma is a separate thing providing a break between clauses. >>> Strictly it should have the periods since it is an abbreviation but >>> their use is more vauge in fixed point text since they look ugly, the >>> thing that made me complain was that you dropped the comma as well as >>> substituting in the expanded version. >> >> I still do not get what point you are trying to make. Could you please >> provide evidence? Because really, this is the usage I have seen in >> projects out there all around, including the majority of the linux >> kernel. >> >> Here is some more data: >> >> grep -rn "e\.g\. " . | wc -l >> 2553 >> lpapp ~/Projects/linux-staging $ grep -rn "e\.g\.," . | wc -l >> 573 >> -- > > Hi, > > I am used to seeing e.g. and i.e. always followed by a comma when they are > used to begin a sentence. However, I just checked and some online style > guides say to omit the comma and some say to use it, and we (Linux kernel) > don't really have a writing style guide to look at. I think that makes it > up to the maintainer to decide what is acceptable.
Who is the maintainer? Is it Mark, or I should wait for someone else? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
