[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] change AC3 to AC-3

Diego Biurrun diego
Wed Aug 6 09:23:13 CEST 2008


On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 01:03:59AM +0200, Ivo wrote:
> On Wednesday 06 August 2008 00:21, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 05:42:36PM -0400, Justin Ruggles wrote:
> > > I'm not saying that this is what I always follow... but if I had to
> > > choose a set of rules...
> > >
> > > I think that a period should be used for either indicating the end of a
> > > complete sentence or separating a Doxygen brief description from a
> > > detailed description.  For capitalization, I think that the only
> > > considerations should be normal English grammer: start of a sentence,
> > > proper names, acronyms, etc...
> >
> > I don't see where we disagree...
> 
> You disagree on what composes a sentence. I have to say I'm with Justin on 
> this. Why would a sentence without a verb or object not be a sentence? 
> Imagine having two of those after eachother. How would you tell where one 
> ends and the other starts if there's no period?
> 
> Hey, you there!
> Yes, you!
> Never cry wolf.
> My kingdom for a horse!
> 
> Those are all sentences in my book and would look silly if the first letter 
> was not properly capitalised and/or the last character was omitted.

All of these are exclamations and not *written* English.  I never made a
statement about how best to transcribe spoken into written English.  The
subject matter here is (good) technical writing and which way to spell
in code comments and similar.

In this context, my rule makes perfect sense, i.e.

/* Prevent overflow. */
/* backwards compatibility */
/* simple AC-3 encoder */
/* Ensure that the requirements from above are met. */

Diego




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