Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!pacbell!pbhyf!rob
From: rob@PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Elm 2.2 miscellany
Message-ID: <5006@pbhyf.PacBell.COM>
Date: 12 Apr 89 15:29:28 GMT
References: <5191@nis.mn.org> <5192@nis.mn.org>
Reply-To: rob@PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo)
Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA
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In article <5192@nis.mn.org> pnessutt@nis.mn.org (Robert A. Monio) writes:
+In article <5191@nis.mn.org> rjg@nis.mn.org (Robert J. Granvin) writes:
+>However, I find the phrases within brackets [...] aesthetically
+>unpleasing now that they are punctuated.  The punctuation everywhere
+>else visually is fine, but in these cases it's unpleasing. (Nit pick!
+>Nit pick!  :-)
+
+You're not being nitpicky, Bob.  I too find them disgusting.  You just beat
+me to posting a response concerning it.  :-).
+
+I enjoy using Elm.  It seems apparent though that someone got a little
+wild with 'proper' punctuation.  In my opinion, the '[]' enclosure is
+sufficient for closing punctation on Elm's messages.  Why overdo it?

as one of the elm developers im curious to understand why the use
of punctuation would actually bother you i ask this because i would
have thought that either 1 people wouldnt care about punctuation or
2 else would prefer punctuation i wouldnt expect that there would
be anyone against punctuation in sentential user messages why is
having punctuation overdoing it

:-)
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