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Re: Where is GLOBAL_COMMAND?


From: Peng Yu
Subject: Re: Where is GLOBAL_COMMAND?
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2019 14:37:02 -0600

> That's a documentation convention - the all-caps in the docstring calls
> your attention to the need to search case-insensitively for the actual
> variable, while spelling it case-sensitively would make it blend into
> the sentence and make it harder to realize that the sentence is indeed
> pointing you to an external variable.

Why not just use ` to quote it literally? Given that markdown is very
common nowadays. Quoting it with ` should be a better choice rather
than making it capitalized. I guess this probably because the original
codebase predates markdown and its variants?

> If you think the existing convention is confusing, then submit a patch
> to change it instead of asking someone else to take on the grunt work.
> Otherwise, learn to live with the existing convention (which doesn't
> bother me, so I won't be submitting a patch).

If it was hosted on github, then I would. But I am not used to
savannah. Personally, I don't think it is as convenient.

-- 
Regards,
Peng



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