----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jason McIntyre" <j...@kerhand.co.uk> > To: "tech" <tech@openbsd.org> > Sent: Monday, October 5, 2015 11:41:57 AM > Subject: Re: missing colon delimiters in style.9
> On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 11:21:24AM -0400, Rob Pierce wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 03:18:06PM +0100, Jason McIntyre wrote: >> > On Sun, Oct 04, 2015 at 10:56:45PM -0400, Rob Pierce wrote: >> > > >> > > Index: style.9 >> > > =================================================================== >> > >> > there are many more places in this place you'd have to add colons if you >> > wanted to do it consistently. generally i do use colons for stuff like >> > this but that's really a matter of preference. this page has so many >> > indented examples we'd be drowning if we added them everywhere. >> > >> > i don;t think this is worthwhile. >> > >> > jmc >> >> Hey Jason, >> >> If you mean colons versus periods and commas then I agree. However, these few >> sentences are the only ones with no ending punctuation at all (I found one >> more offender and included it below). >> >> They stuck out to me, and given that it is a "style" guide that will be read >> by new folks I thought it worth mentioning. >> >> Regards, >> > > it's just treating the example as a continuation of the text, that's > all. the notation is used all over the place. i honestly don;t think > it's worth worrying about. > > jmc Roger that, thanks.
