On 01/14/2012 08:45 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
On 1/14/2012 7:05 AM, Jeff Nowakowski wrote:
On 01/14/2012 03:16 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
Minor stylistic nit pet peeve of mine: please remove the word "you" and
"your" from the prose.
That sounds a bit strict, and looking at one of your articles I see it
used in
the second sentence: "A pure function does what you'd expect — the
compiler
enforces purity of the function."
What can I say? Ya got me there. I do tend to write "you", and remove
them in a later pass.
But let's take some examples from the first page of the text, and see if
the elidition looks better:
Why don't we just let the guy write his thing in peace, before demanding
a complete book with stylistically professional grammar and style?
I mean, at this rate we are beating the horse to death before we've even
put it in front of the carriage. If I were Philippe, by this time I'd be
stressed out, and the project would start to whither.
How about folks just helping him write it, like he asked?
There's plenty of time to turn it to the Ten Commandments later, but it
needs to exist before that.
