Messages in this thread | | | From | Frans Pop <> | Subject | Re: Trailing periods in kernel messages | Date | Fri, 21 Dec 2007 02:43:33 +0100 |
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On Thursday 20 December 2007, Alan Cox wrote: > The kernel printk messages are sentences.
I'm afraid that I completely and utterly disagree. Kernel messages are _not_ sentences. The vast majority is not well-formed and does not contain any of the elements that are required for a proper sentence.
The most kernel messages can be compared to is a rather diverse and sloppy enumeration. And enumerations follow completely different rules than sentences. It can better be characterized as a "semi-random sequence of context-sensitive technical messages".
IMHO the existing rule that "Kernel messages do not have to be terminated with a period." is completely justified, though it does need some minor clarification on the cases in which proper punctuation _should_ be followed.
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