From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Stylistic changes to tree-sitter code Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2022 10:01:15 +0300 Message-ID: <83pmebi05g.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87h6zp75nt.fsf.ref@yahoo.com> <87h6zp75nt.fsf@yahoo.com> <87h6zptloj.fsf@gmail.com> <87y1t06apv.fsf@yahoo.com> <87k04ksa4f.fsf@gmail.com> <87k04k5stm.fsf@yahoo.com> <875yg34aas.fsf@yahoo.com> <0E4C5439-B28D-420A-9E4A-BA059269AD57@gmail.com> <87wn8j2nfs.fsf@yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="8805"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: casouri@gmail.com, rpluim@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Po Lu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 29 09:20:47 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oog97-000269-MG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 29 Oct 2022 09:20:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oog8O-0004eT-UQ; Sat, 29 Oct 2022 03:20:00 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oofqN-00016e-Fc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Oct 2022 03:01:33 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oofqN-0006JQ-3A; Sat, 29 Oct 2022 03:01:23 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=MIME-version:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: Date; bh=pFTO2YqXNCnolDOg8yQTkW6U3GDjl0sXlZ4pE8Galks=; b=kzail5pPppKs/aJEFmwQ p5AtJ11hJ3aKWEZFYlmvLj+Ikgn9dpUCCkOIJZWPxpQxtksBz6JUggIMbY8v1XpCJvwlSJ2Kx1ad2 mPYv4mMXu7ALl62F5tRTijvY8gdBtW92W/1E5N3bc+wc/XsqvxbH5+lx8DeeMVIeOW4uTc92GF0X4 ljiustirkfltG1dgT0397cs3R+gh/KZ7xzlWM51MYodb3giRM62n5QryWuTs+J3nXvNb6dLPP7Hvl im8dafiD82inb4JNKmxDR9HHH6eaXFw0zHZLykCMJQ1HG1zFt+Qv7GuYt5pj2jzYKh7q/ptbmBkgn Mgu2BJw9JrcL6w==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oofqG-0000Hu-TQ; Sat, 29 Oct 2022 03:01:22 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87wn8j2nfs.fsf@yahoo.com> (message from Po Lu on Sat, 29 Oct 2022 13:44:55 +0800) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:298730 Archived-At: > From: Po Lu > Cc: Robert Pluim , emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2022 13:44:55 +0800 > > Yuan Fu 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. > > But not in comments and documentation. Yes, in comments and documentation as well. > IME, a very important point in > writing documentation and comments is to avoid the use of pronouns > unless absolutely necessary: "I", "you", "we", et cetera. Especially > "we", which is also so hard to avoid even I make the mistake of using it > occasionally. That is correct, but your change removed only "we", and left "I" intact. In any case, rephrasing to avoid pronouns doesn't necessarily force us to use passive voice.