[gdbserver/commit] fix whitespace.

Eli Zaretskii eliz@gnu.org
Mon Mar 23 06:28:00 GMT 2009


> From: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@br.ibm.com>
> Cc: Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 23:12:32 -0300
> 
> Since we're in group therapy mode:
> 
> What bothers me the most is the insistence on old-fashioned English
> "rules" which apparently were taught in schools back then, like the
> silly "two spaces after period" mantra, and "the passive voice shall
> NEVER be used!!!11!".

Your friendly therapist says: the silly "two spaces" rule is for Emacs
movement by sentence, and avoiding passive voice in English makes
shorter and less complicated sentences, and thus makes the text easier
to comprehend, especially to non-native English speakers.



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