From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@null.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] first capital letter i
Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 09:01:31 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <s_2dnXKak_fWhzDd4p2dnA@comcast.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7359f04904052008222b1ec778@mail.gmail.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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-21 9:01 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 ` Douglas A. Gwyn [this message]
2004-05-21 15:34 ` [9fans] first capital letter i Rob Pike
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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