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Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 08:34:32 -0700
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
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> 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