Are there any guidelines w.r.t. capitalization here? I couldn't find anything in style(9), and it seems to me like the prevailing convention in the code is to not capitalize these

In D56807#1303792, @obiwac wrote:

Are there any guidelines w.r.t. capitalization here? I couldn't find anything in style(9), and it seems to me like the prevailing convention in the code is to not capitalize these

AFAIK, there are none, and it's more or less up to authors. So that's my preference. :-)

But I really do not understand why some people insist on not capitalizing (which is not the same as, they don't do it because they are mimicking things they have seen or because of lazyness or because they simply don't care). Capitalizing helps delineating messages/sentences quickly, even after, e.g., panic:. Maybe the drawback for some is that they find it catching too much attention? I don't know.

In D56807#1304184, @olce wrote:

In D56807#1303792, @obiwac wrote:

Are there any guidelines w.r.t. capitalization here? I couldn't find anything in style(9), and it seems to me like the prevailing convention in the code is to not capitalize these

AFAIK, there are none, and it's more or less up to authors. So that's my preference. :-)

But I really do not understand why some people insist on not capitalizing (which is not the same as, they don't do it because they are mimicking things they have seen or because of lazyness or because they simply don't care). Capitalizing helps delineating messages/sentences quickly, even after, e.g., panic:. Maybe the drawback for some is that they find it catching too much attention? I don't know.

I tend to agree with you, and I capitalize everything in my personal projects. I just don't do it for freebsd code because it feels like the vast majority of strings don't capitalize and so it looks weird to me. but I don't really care