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
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