Re: [PATCH] include/linux/regmap.h: fix a couple of typos

[Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>]

On 01/08/14 17:46, Laszlo Papp wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 9:49 PM, Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 09:08:44PM +0000, Laszlo Papp wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 9:02 PM, Laszlo Papp <lpapp@kde.org> wrote:
>>
>>>> That being said, I will not have time, nor the motivation to argue
>>>> over such a nuance, so feel free to reject the change.
>>
>>> Of course, this is just on top of the vim spell checker error as I
>>> wrote in the commit message...
>>
>>> Oh yes, and one more factual data in here:
>>
>>> lpapp ~/Projects/linux-staging $ grep -rn "e\.g\." . | wc -l
>>> 3447
>>
>>> lpapp ~/Projects/linux-staging $ grep -rn " eg," | wc -l
>>> 18
>>
>> That's not the issue - it's dropping the comma.  It's either "e.g." or
>> "eg", the comma is a separate thing providing a break between clauses.
>> Strictly it should have the periods since it is an abbreviation but
>> their use is more vauge in fixed point text since they look ugly, the
>> thing that made me complain was that you dropped the comma as well as
>> substituting in the expanded version.
> 
> I still do not get what point you are trying to make. Could you please
> provide evidence? Because really, this is the usage I have seen in
> projects out there all around, including the majority of the linux
> kernel.
> 
> Here is some more data:
> 
> grep -rn "e\.g\. " . | wc -l
> 2553
> lpapp ~/Projects/linux-staging $ grep -rn "e\.g\.," . | wc -l
> 573
> --

Hi,

I am used to seeing e.g. and i.e. always followed by a comma when they are
used to begin a sentence.  However, I just checked and some online style
guides say to omit the comma and some say to use it, and we (Linux kernel)
don't really have a writing style guide to look at.  I think that makes it
up to the maintainer to decide what is acceptable.


-- 
~Randy