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It has the advantage of distinguishing abbreviations (e.g. "e.g.", "i.e.") from sentence stops, so that's why the GNU coding standards recommend using two spaces in code comments, to allow emacs to be able to properly detect sentences and correctly use commands like (
backward-sentence
,forward-sentence
andkill-sentence
)