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:
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giving you powerful compile-time code generation abilities that’ll make your
code cleaner, more flexible and even more e cient.
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giving powerful compile-time code generation abilities that’ll make code
cleaner, more flexible and even more e cient.
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its material doesn’t so much teach you how to use templates as show you their
syntax and semantics.
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its material doesn’t so much teach how to use templates as show their syntax and
semantics.
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the standard ‘building blocks’ you'll use in almost all your templates,
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the standard ‘building blocks’ used in almost all templates,
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and what you can build with them in conjunction with templates.
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and what can be built with them in conjunction with templates.
