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From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
To: Yuan Fu <casouri@gmail.com>, Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
Cc: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Stylistic changes to tree-sitter code
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2022 00:29:49 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkmkdtL5KKf9C4cwtZi8kX0=hTHmmnRsOs4rZLd-rxWWR8g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0E4C5439-B28D-420A-9E4A-BA059269AD57@gmail.com>

Yuan Fu <casouri@gmail.com> writes:

> Also, out of curiosity, I thought active voice is good and passive
> voice is bad? Though the subject here doesn’t add any useful
> information, I recon.

I don't have an opinion about this particular change, but I don't think
we apply that in such a blanket fashion (i.e. "passive voice = bad").

Richard gave this advice on 15 October:

> The proposed manual text includes several sentences which use passive
> voice and would be shorter in active voice.  Occasionally the use of
> passive voice is best approach, but usually not, so please try making
> them active and see if that makes the text more readable.

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2022-10/msg01276.html



      parent reply	other threads:[~2022-10-29  7:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <87h6zp75nt.fsf.ref@yahoo.com>
2022-10-27 13:33 ` Stylistic changes to tree-sitter code Po Lu via Emacs development discussions.
2022-10-27 13:56   ` Robert Pluim
2022-10-28  0:41     ` Po Lu via Emacs development discussions.
2022-10-28  4:14       ` Yuan Fu
2022-10-28  7:03       ` Robert Pluim
2022-10-28  7:08         ` Po Lu
2022-10-29  2:45           ` Po Lu via Emacs development discussions.
2022-10-29  4:19             ` Yuan Fu
2022-10-29  5:44               ` Po Lu
2022-10-29  7:01                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-29  7:25                   ` Po Lu
2022-10-29  8:16                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-29  8:34                       ` Po Lu
2022-10-29  6:54               ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-29  7:29               ` Stefan Kangas [this message]

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