On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 16:23, Steve Schafer wrote: > On Fri, 09 Jul 2010 10:07:06 -0400, brandon s. allbery wrote: > > I don't think I've ever seen them *followed* by commas. Preceded, > always. > > In American English, they're always followed by commas, and preceded by > comma, semicolon, dash or left parenthesis, depending on the specific > context. >
One of the "nice" things about English is that there is often never an "always." See http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/ie-eg-oh-my.aspx for a discussion. (For me personally, I prefer to minimize the juxtapositions of punctuation (e.g. . and ,). As long as there's not an editor looking over my shoulder telling me it's not acceptable, I will continue to do so.) As for future editions of the Haskell Report, one possibility to eliminate concerns about spelling and grammar would be to decide to follow a certain dialect and style. This would reduce the number of comma-related comments. Sean
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