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- From: goudreau@robin.rtp.dg.com (Bob Goudreau)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: The Correct Way To Write C if-Statements
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.174703.28531@dg-rtp.dg.com>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 17:47:03 GMT
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- In article <craigh.721691551@cserver> craigh@cserver.plexus.com (Craig Heilman) writes:
- >goudreau@batman.rtp.dg.com (Bob Goudreau) writes:
- >
- >[...]
- >>Anway, if I were posting in Swedish, then perhaps I'd put only one
- >>space after each period. But in English, two following spaces *IS*
- >>the standard (look it up).
- >
- >Two spaces after a sentence is a throwback to the typewriter days when
- >everything was "monospaced" ...
-
- >Two spaces looks better with such fonts (note how these net messages are
- >monospaced - at least on my machine).
-
- Exactly! That's why I use two spaces in my articles! We ain't
- exactly typsetting books here on Usenet.
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