From: Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] first capital letter i
Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 08:34:32 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7359f0490405210834129b5098@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <s_2dnXKak_fWhzDd4p2dnA@comcast.com>
> Rob Pike wrote:
> > Let me put it to you this way: the first letter of a sentence
> > is capitalized. As Doug said when we talked about this,
> > 'the' isn't capitalized either, but we capitalize it at the
> > beginning of a sentence to aid the reader.
>
> The counterargument is that a proper name such as
> Rob is capitalized the same no matter where it appears.
> Further, "Foo" and "foo" designate two distinct
> functions which can both exist in the same context,
> so for clarity the exact name should be used.
>
I answered his question.
-rob
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-21 15:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-20 14:59 [9fans] first capital letter in function names at man pages ¿why? Alberto Cortes
2004-05-20 15:22 ` Rob Pike
2004-05-20 15:53 ` [9fans] first capital letter in function names at man pages, why? Alberto Cortes
2004-05-20 16:44 ` Russ Cox
2004-05-20 17:20 ` Alberto Cortes
2004-05-20 17:31 ` rog
2004-05-20 17:43 ` Alberto Cortes
2004-05-20 17:50 ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
2004-05-21 17:20 ` Joel Salomon
2004-05-21 17:46 ` boyd, rounin
2004-05-21 18:11 ` Jason Gurtz
2004-05-21 18:21 ` boyd, rounin
2004-05-20 17:53 ` rog
2004-05-20 17:54 ` Alberto Cortes
2004-05-21 10:28 ` Gorka Guardiola Múzquiz
2004-05-21 10:29 ` Dave Lukes
2004-05-21 10:57 ` Alberto Cortes
2004-05-21 11:04 ` Gorka Guardiola Múzquiz
2004-05-21 12:23 ` Alberto Cortes
2004-05-21 12:30 ` Gorka Guardiola Múzquiz
2004-05-21 12:48 ` Alberto Cortes
2004-05-21 14:25 ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
2004-05-21 14:34 ` Alberto Cortes
2004-05-21 14:27 ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
2004-05-21 14:44 ` splite
2004-05-21 15:24 ` boyd, rounin
2004-05-21 15:29 ` Fco. J. Ballesteros
2004-05-21 16:23 ` Alberto Cortes
2004-05-21 14:50 ` boyd, rounin
2004-05-21 15:57 ` boyd, rounin
2004-05-24 2:10 ` Micah Stetson
2004-05-24 2:38 ` Greg Pavelcak
2004-05-24 3:47 ` Eric KD5UWL
2004-05-24 15:46 ` boyd, rounin
2004-05-24 22:33 ` Micah Stetson
2004-05-21 14:22 ` boyd, rounin
2004-05-20 20:43 ` vdharani
2004-05-20 18:18 ` boyd, rounin
2004-05-20 18:07 ` boyd, rounin
2004-05-20 18:20 ` rog
2004-05-20 23:34 ` Brantley Coile
2004-05-20 17:02 ` Rob Pike
2004-05-21 9:01 ` [9fans] first capital letter i Douglas A. Gwyn
2004-05-21 15:34 ` Rob Pike [this message]
2004-05-20 16:57 ` [9fans] first capital letter infunction names at man pages ¿why? matt lawless
2004-05-20 17:58 ` boyd, rounin
2004-05-20 18:09 ` Russ Cox
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