> On Nov. 17, 2015, 8:18 a.m., Alexander Rukletsov wrote: > > What is the motivation for this? Are there any studies proving it > > facilitates preception? > > Joerg Schad wrote: > Motivation is the current inconsistent writing of numbers e.g. in the c++ > styleguide. > > Alexander Rukletsov wrote: > Sorry for not being clear. My question is more "why do you propose such > scheme?". For me it feels inconsistent to have both figures and spelled out > numbers. My intuition is that such rule is harder to remember than simple > ones like "use figures everywhere" or "always spell out". I assume you base > your proposal on common practices in american? british? English or studies > around human perception which are unknown to me as an ESL : ).
It looks like there are guideline on spelling out numbers versus using literals, though they are not consistent: http://www.grammarbook.com/numbers/numbers.asp http://www.dailywritingtips.com/10-rules-for-writing-numbers-and-numerals/ Another question I have, is your proposal related to docs only, or for code comments as well? Though I do think comments should be proper text, I'm not sure they should be fiction and would rather keep only numerals there. - Alexander ----------------------------------------------------------- This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: https://reviews.apache.org/r/40292/#review106809 ----------------------------------------------------------- On Nov. 17, 2015, 8:07 a.m., Joerg Schad wrote: > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: > https://reviews.apache.org/r/40292/ > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > (Updated Nov. 17, 2015, 8:07 a.m.) > > > Review request for mesos and Bernd Mathiske. > > > Repository: mesos > > > Description > ------- > > Added style guideline for writing numbers to markdown styleguide. > > > Diffs > ----- > > docs/markdown-style-guide.md fe9ffefbbb2c0ce9ade39cec1de073163a9a03b2 > > Diff: https://reviews.apache.org/r/40292/diff/ > > > Testing > ------- > > viewed rendered version. > > > Thanks, > > Joerg Schad > >
