Jason McIntyre <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 20, 2022 at 01:53:18PM -0700, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > This went from solving one thing, which was largely agreed. > > > > Now it is trying to introduce other changes as well. Almost always that > > process stinks, unless it goes over the top at saying it is trying to solve > > other problems when the diff is re-introduced. It is sneaky, and usually > > seems to be a way of trying to get people to sign off because they are > > tired. > > You really do know better. The right way to handle someone doing that is > > for > > us to say "not ok". BTW, this is not a new action by you. I think it is > > fair > > to ask you to stop doing this. > > > > And anyways, the way you do plural is with adding S, not adding 'S. > > > > But what you want is more like this: > > > > -utility evaluates > > +utility evaluates each > > .Ar expression > > and writes the result on standard output. > > > > then you don't need to try this incorrect apostrophy. > > > > But it does not belong in this diff, and it does not belong in the same > > commit, because that is a procedure violation. Yes this is just manual > > pages, > > but processes have a way of sneaking into other more complex parts of the > > tree, so the place to stop this methodology is here. > > > > hi. > > i guess these comments are directed at me (i'm sorry if i have picked > that up wrongly).
no, at kn, who keeps changing the diff without discussion, which is sneaky. there are technical issues being explained wrong, and they can be fixed, but not by sneaking additional new unexplained changes into the diff, which propose using incorrect english and making the diff worse. I think this is abusing 's. I really want to know why an expression owns a utility, and what does it do with the utilities it owns. That is what "expression's utility" means (if I ignore the following words). this is a possessive apostrophe. 's is used for pluralization in some cases, but this does not feel like one of those cases. But how about we let the english speaking pedants handle it, and not keep interrupting with more sneaky tweaks?
