A tutorial on D templates

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Saturday, January 14, 2012 00:16:37 Walter Bright wrote:
> On 1/13/2012 1:20 PM, Philippe Sigaud wrote:
> > This also extend to anyone who would want to share some template
> > love/lore with the rest of us.
> 
> I see you've already done a great deal of work on this, it looks nice! I
> strongly encourage you to continue with it, and release it as a book. We
> could sure use another book on D!
> 
> I strongly suggest making the formatting work for a Kindle edition of your
> book. PDF files do badly on e-readers.
> 
> Minor stylistic nit pet peeve of mine: please remove the word "you" and
> "your" from the prose. It's nearly always redundant, and the sentences flow
> better without it. "You" is a filler word, similar to "um", "like", and
> "basically".
> 
> For example,
> 
> Like, I basically think that you will basically prefer the, um, text once
> basically you, like, remove basically them, like, ok. Know what I'm saying?
> 
>     =>
> 
> The text will look better without them.
> 
> :-)

I confess that it's a bit of a pet peeve of mine when people insist on 
avoiding words like you and your. I completely disagree that it's a problem. 
And there are times where avoiding it can cause problems and make the text 
more awkward (though it is true that you can often avoid it fairly easily if 
you really want to).

But I know that there are plenty of technical writers who would agree with 
you.

- Jonathan M Davis