A tutorial on D templates

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Saturday, January 14, 2012 10:26:22 Walter Bright wrote:
> 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?

There are certainly times when reducing how much "you" is used reduces the 
amount of text at no extra cost, but there are other times, when it's far more 
natural to use "you," and it can become harder to produce sentences without 
completely reworking that section of text if "you" is removed. And honestly, 
it just seems overly picky to me. Sure, it can reduce the word count, but I 
really don't think that it does all that much to improve the quality of the 
text, and it can require quite a bit more work, since it tends to be unnatural 
to avoid "you" in the way that technical writers like to.

- Jonathan M Davis