Hi,
Alejandro Colomar wrote on Wed, May 03, 2023 at 02:35:41AM +0200:
> Heh!
> Branden wasn't enthusiastic my emails when I wrote poetry in them, though :/
> Any chance we can warn users that they should write poems, not prose?
[...]
> Just kidding, but technically, it's probably more accurate,
Hey Josh,
On 5/2/23 05:59, josh wrote:
[...]
> Here's a relevant passage about the origin of the phrase from
> https://vanemden.wordpress.com/2009/01/01/ventilated-prose,
>
>> In the 1930s Buckminster Fuller (he of the domes, but also of many other
>> things) was doing research for the Phelps
Hey Alex,
Thanks a lot for the clarifications, I agree with your reasoning.
On Mon, May 1, 2023 at 8:30 PM Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> What is ventilated in the context of prose? Not too clear to me just by
> reading dict(1).
Regarding "Ventilated Prose", it's more of an endearing figure of
On 5/2/23 00:21, josh wrote:
> Hi, I'm here with a quick tangent.
Hi Josh,
>
> It turns out that there is a lot of discourse out there about "semantic
> newlines", under a few different names. So far the names I've seen are:
>
> - One Sentence Per Line (OSPL)
This forgets about clauses and
Hi, I'm here with a quick tangent.
It turns out that there is a lot of discourse out there about "semantic
newlines", under a few different names. So far the names I've seen are:
- One Sentence Per Line (OSPL)
- Semantic Line Breaks (SemBr)
- Semantic Linefeeds
- Ventilated Prose
- Semantic
Hi Alex,
At 2023-05-01T00:15:55+0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> You could try it (but C++ will only work as long as it resembles C;
> and you need to specify the file suffix).
I prefer C to C++ when I have a choice. groff doesn't give me one. ;-)
But I'm also accustomed to ctags(1) and
Hi Branden,
On 4/30/23 14:34, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
>> Well, formally yes. And a regex can't find C function definitions in
>> a source tree; at least if you try to fool it by writing the most
>> horrible code in the universe. But I wrote a relatively small
>> script[1] that finds a lot of
Hi Branden,
G. Branden Robinson wrote on Sun, Apr 30, 2023 at 07:34:57AM -0500:
> Hmm, I see that was Bjarni's doing. Being from Iceland, he perhaps has
> more of the spirit of Loki than most...
Please do not jump to conclusions. I know at least one Icelander
personally and he is a very
At 2023-04-30T03:04:27+0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> On 4/30/23 02:05, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> > I should have said "_Warn on_ semantic newlines" is a terrible
> > instruction/summary.
>
> That's why I used the phrase (at least I tried to do it consistently
> recently) "warn on S. N.
Hi Branden,
On 4/30/23 02:05, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> I should clarify a couple of points here since I was feeling grumpy when
> I wrote the following, and that made me forget things.
>
> At 2023-04-27T09:45:40-0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
>> We're re-covering some familiar ground here.
I should clarify a couple of points here since I was feeling grumpy when
I wrote the following, and that made me forget things.
At 2023-04-27T09:45:40-0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> We're re-covering some familiar ground here.
>
> I have a few points I'd like to make.
>
> 1. "Semantic
We're re-covering some familiar ground here.
I have a few points I'd like to make.
1. "Semantic newlines" is a terrible term. We should abandon it at
once. The detection of sentence boundaries is not restricted to
newlines, and you *don't* want to warn on _those_, but on the ones
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