svn commit: r238672 - head/sys/dev/sdhci

Alexey Dokuchaev danfe at FreeBSD.org
Mon Jul 23 08:06:38 UTC 2012


On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 12:28:13AM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 12:12 AM, Gleb Smirnoff <glebius at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 03:30:26PM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> > A> On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 02:07:43PM +0000, Gleb Smirnoff wrote:
> > A> >    /*
> > A> >     * Some SD/MMC cards don't work with the default base
> > A> > -   * clock frequency of 200MHz.  Lower it to 50Hz.
> > A> > +   * clock frequency of 200MHz. Lower it to 50MHz.
> > A>
> > A> ... Why losing 2-space break after a sentence (per what we are
> > A> generally adhering and AFAIR is suggested by Chicago Style Guide)?
> >
> > Never heard about this rule. Sorry.
> 
>     Actually, English spacing is discouraged in more recent texts; it
> was encouraged during the late 19th century up until the late 20th
> century according to ye great wikipedia [1], but I've read several
> other articles in the past decade that suggest that the English
> spacing convention be completely abolished.

I was under impression that 2-space rule still makes sense for monospaced
text as it improves readability (which is less of an issue for proportional
fonts).

./danfe


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