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I too strongly favour adopting consistent single spaces after full stops.
Despite also having been taught double-spacing, way back in my Early
Jurassic schooldays,
I never double-space my own text or comments, and I have no plans to ever
offer a
double-spacing option in Text::Autoformat (because of the near-endless
supply of
false-positive edge-cases that Yves has already mentioned).
Although, just out of interest, I gave the following made-up Perl comment
to ChatGPT 3.5:
# Don't try this at home, kids! We need these etc. so we can pretend
that they
# are built-in constructs. It's very cheeky (like Dr. Who) to be
messing with builtin pragmas,
# but these intrusions et al. are careful not to hook any existing
behaviour. They only
# add simulations of the proposed new behaviour. I judge that to be
marginally
# more acceptable. Especially if they are invoked only explicitly, by
loading this module.
I then asked it to double-space between sentences . It returned the
following (which it got 100% right):
# Don't try this at home, kids! We need these etc. so we can pretend
that they
# are built-in constructs. It's very cheeky (like Dr. Who) to be
messing with builtin pragmas,
# but these intrusions et al. are careful not to hook any existing
behaviour. They only
# add simulations of the proposed new behaviour. I judge that to be
marginally
# more acceptable. Especially if they are invoked only explicitly, by
loading this module.
So I guess, once we upgrade Text::Autoformat to a 175-billion-parameter
large language model,
Yves won't have a problem any more.
Till then, however, I support this proposed change.
Damian
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