Thomas,
Lots of good points being made. May I add a little one? Familiarity. In
Britain, telephone numbers are grouped in 3's, although with various
over-riding factors; my number is
0113 - 226 - 6687
where the Leeds area code is given as four digits, then what's left is split
into 3 followed
At 22:02 +0100 2001-09-21, Thomas Green wrote:
Lots of good points being made. May I add a little one? Familiarity. In
Britain, telephone numbers are grouped in 3's, although with various
over-riding factors; my number is
0113 - 226 - 6687
where the Leeds area code is given as four digits, then
Derek M Jones wrote:
My own advice at the practical level is not to discuss this issue
with developers. It creates an enormous amount of discussion
for very small benefit. Let them carry on doing that they are currently doing.
I tend to agree with Derek here; most mature C developers I
I think this is a simple readability and/or standards issue. For
example, the APA publication manual specifically separates the label
from the bracket in reporting statistics and degrees of freedom, for
example for an analysis of variance it is F (2, 24) not F(2, 24).
I'm not so sure.
Lots of good points being made. May I add a little one? Familiarity. In
Britain, telephone numbers are grouped in 3's, although with various
over-riding factors; my number is
0113 - 226 - 6687
where the Leeds area code is given as four digits, then what's left is split
into 3 followed by a four
