Re: Hello fdclose

On 03/21/14 20:51, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Warner Losh <imp_at_bsdimp.com> writes:
>> It does serve a useful purpose, though, which is why it has endured.
>> If you were to have a man page that said ‘Putc(3) returns …’ then the
>> automated tools (and web links) that find Putc.3 wouldn’t be able to since
>> it doesn’t exist.
>
> Moreover - if FreeBSD were written in Pascal, it might not matter, but
> in C, _exit(2) and _Exit(3) are two different functions.
>
> (I'm sure there are other examples without a leading underscore)
>
> (eww, starting a sentence with a non-alphabetic character would be even
> worse...)
>
> DES
>
Etc., etc., etc.  Wouldn't it be more productive to spend this effort on
recasting the sentence in question so that it doesn't start with a word
that starts with a small letter?                              -- George