Re: [quicwg/base-drafts] Choose between semicolons and parenthesis (#3591)

Mike Bishop <notifications@github.com> Tue, 21 April 2020 17:29 UTC

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I'm fine with leaving the parens mid-sentence.  To me, the distinction is whether they're providing extra information about the entire sentence, or about a specific term in the sentence.  If it's about a specific term, use parens immediately after the term; if it's about the sentence in general, use a semicolon after the sentence.

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