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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New eclasses and USE_EXPAND: postgres{,-multi}.eclass
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2017 23:11:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1492895516.19425.3.camel@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1492889922.22050.1.camel@gentoo.org>

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On sob, 2017-04-22 at 22:38 +0300, Mart Raudsepp wrote:
> I do not believe that DESCRIPTION should have a dot in the end, because
> that takes away from this precious nonsensical 80 characters limit,
> making it 79 instead. On that note, I believe the limit should be
> raised to at least 100 characters.
> 
> Oh wait, weren't you going to title this about period mark at the end
> of DESCRIPTION...?

Proper sentences end (those with a subject noun and a verb) with a full
stop. The other thingies (sorry, don't know the English name for it) do
not. Simple as that.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2017-04-22 21:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-21 19:42 [gentoo-dev] New eclasses and USE_EXPAND: postgres{,-multi}.eclass Aaron W. Swenson
2017-04-22 19:38 ` Mart Raudsepp
2017-04-22 20:31   ` Aaron W. Swenson
2017-04-22 21:11   ` Michał Górny [this message]

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