Re: [PATCH] CodingGuidelines: Add a section on writing documentation

> Heya,
>
> On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 04:54, Štěpán Němec <stepnem@gmail.com> wrote:
>> But given that it's only used as {0,2} at the two places right now
>> (disregarding occurences of "0{40}" in the documentation), I agree it
>> might be better to get rid of it, although I don't feel strongly about
>> it. Any other opinions?
>
> Let's get rid of it for now, we can always resurrect it later if we
> have a need for it.

>> I thought about this already when preparing the recent unification
>> series, and came to the conclusion "no, there shouldn't". :-) As the
>> examples you give show, the current usage is inconsistent, but given
>> that it brings no semantic ambiguity, I don't think it is a problem. You
>> could find more similar cosmetic inconsistencies and I don't think it
>> makes much sense to mandate any rules for such things. (But again, I
>> don't feel _too_ strongly about this either, so if more people think
>> it's worth it, I can prepare a patch that unifies them and mention the
>> preference in CodingGuidelines.)
>
> Perhaps we can set a standard to do it, but just leave the existing
> cases as is (to prevent unneeded churn)? That way we'll eventually
> converge on something.