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Wesley via perl5-porters
Date:
March 16, 2023 20:22
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Re: Proposal: Standardize to one space after full stops indocumentation, pod, comments, etc.
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On 3/16/23 14:49, demerphq wrote:
> TLDR: Single space after a full stop is easier to automate, the current standard
> taught in school, and minimally impacts reading speed. Let us make the standard
> be one space after a full stop.
>
> Traditional typesetting rules would put two spaces after a full stop (known to
> North Americans as the "period"[1]) in documentation. This is what I was taught
> in school, and I suspect that most people over a certain age learned in school
> as well.

I never learned full stop/dot, two spaces in school. It was always one.

+1 for single space for me.

Cheers,
Wesley

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Wesley Schwengle
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