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Re: [using gcc book] ch1 objective-c blurb
Chris Devers <cdevers@pobox.com> writes:
>> This usage seems to be used more than the alternative in the manual.
>> <http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/writing-style.html> discusses the two
>> styles.
>
> Well I'd prefer not to go so far as to use "hacker style" everywhere, but
> I'm willing to have a policy of <quote><punct> for technical terms
> (commands, names of things like GCC, etc), but more conventional usage
> like <punct><quote> for everything else.
I agree with this policy.
> I shouldn't be editing the FDL though, should I?
No, nor the (L)GPL. Not without careful consultation with RMS,
anyway.
zw