Re: Diff: Introductory Clause Comma Crap

2020-11-01 Thread VARIK VALEFOR
Mr. MCINTYRE: > Mr. MACINTYRE... you must mean my dad! :^) > commas are really subjective, so a massive comma diff is always likely > to be problematic. sentence clauses do not always need commas. sometimes > commas just make the text harder to read. However, the comma rules which are specified a

Re: Diff: Introductory Clause Comma Crap

2020-11-01 Thread Jason McIntyre
On Sun, Nov 01, 2020 at 04:14:19PM -0500, VARIK VALEFOR wrote: > Mr. MCINTYRE: > > > Mr. MACINTYRE... you must mean my dad! > :^) > > > commas are really subjective, so a massive comma diff is always likely > > to be problematic. sentence clauses do not always need commas. sometimes > > commas ju

Re: Diff: Introductory Clause Comma Crap

2020-10-31 Thread VARIK VALEFOR
Mr. GUENTHER: > As a procedural side-note, I would like to suggest that before going on a > quest to make a change that touches so many files cross OpenBSD's code > base, that it would be wise to send out a diff with just a couple examples > and verify that the particular item of concern and the p

Diff: Introductory Clause Comma Crap

2020-10-31 Thread VARIK VALEFOR
Sir or Madam: This message contains even more grammatical fixes for the OpenBSD manual pages. To ensure that the changes which are proposed in this message can be justified, this message primarily fixes only a single type of error: the absence of commas after introductory clauses. Unless otherwi

Re: Diff: Introductory Clause Comma Crap

2020-10-31 Thread Jason McIntyre
On Sat, Oct 31, 2020 at 03:14:30PM -0400, VARIK VALEFOR wrote: > Sir or Madam: > > This message contains even more grammatical fixes for the OpenBSD > manual pages. To ensure that the changes which are proposed in this > message can be justified, this message primarily fixes only a single > type

Re: Diff: Introductory Clause Comma Crap

2020-10-31 Thread Philip Guenther
On Sat, Oct 31, 2020 at 10:19 AM VARIK VALEFOR wrote: > This message contains even more grammatical fixes for the OpenBSD > manual pages. To ensure that the changes which are proposed in this > message can be justified, this message primarily fixes only a single > type of error: the absence of c