A tutorial on D templates

deadalnix deadalnix at gmail.com
Wed Feb 8 02:49:58 PST 2012


Le 14/01/2012 19:26, Walter Bright a écrit :
> On 1/14/2012 12:36 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>> 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).
>
> (though it is true that it can be avoided fairly easily)
>
> Fixed that for you. What advantage does the "you" version have, besides
> upping the word count?
>
>
>> But I know that there are plenty of technical writers who would agree
>> with
>> you.
>
> I cannot recall any professional technical book that used "you" (yes,
> I'm sure you can find an example!). It's like wearing jeans to a wedding.

« The linker will fluently and baroquely remind you of that in its 
native language, encrypted klingon »

Copied verbatim from a certain book I'm sure you know about ;) But I 
have too agrre, some you is good, too much of it isn't in a technical paper.


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