Re: GDP: end singleton lists with a period?

[Werner LEMBERG]

> I'm tempted to add periods anyway, now.  The texinfo manual clearly
> states that we should do this (I only looked at the earlier sections
> in that chapter before), and "technical limitations" makes a much
> stronger argument than "well, in some languages it seemed
> stylistically better to omit it, but in other languages it seemed
> stylistically better to include it".

Honestly, regardless whether it is stylistically correct or not for a
particular language, I prefer having a full stop at the end of an
enumeration: It shows that it is complete.  Compare this to

  `foo', `bar,' and ...

with

  `foo,' `bar,' and ...

AFAIK, the latter is the `correct' style for written English, but only
the former is acceptable in computer sciences IMHO in case you are
using plain text, and you are talking about variables and the such,
since the comma character may be part of the variable name (as it can
happen in Lisp or Scheme, for example).


    Werner