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
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