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From: Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com>
To: Eric Wong <e@yhbt.net>
Cc: meta@public-inbox.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: add technical/whyperl
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2020 01:14:22 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ftddihox.fsf@kyleam.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200408222607.GA4741@dcvr>

Eric Wong <e@yhbt.net> writes:

> Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com> wrote:
>
>> Eric Wong <e@yhbt.net> writes:
>> 
>> > +As always, comments and corrections and additions welcome at
>> 
>> s/welcome/are welcome/ ?
>
> Umm... I guess?  Would omitting "are" would only be valid
> if there were a single item?
>
> 	As always, $FOO welcome at

I guess dropping an "is" in the singular case sounds a little better to
my ears than dropping "are" in the plural case.  I think the original
was fine, though.  I stumbled on it for whatever reason and would write
"are" there myself, but it probably wasn't worth me noting, even if I
hid behind a "?" :>

> Upon a second read of the original, having "and" twice doesn't
> read well to me.  So final form should probably be:
>
> 	As always, comments, corrections and additions are welcome at

Yes, I too would prefer dropping the first "and".

>> > +  performance and memory use are predictable and does not
>> 
>> s/does/do/
>> 
>> > +  require GC tuning by the user.
>
> I think "does" reads better, there, but the sentence runs on
> for too long.  I don't think the GC part needs to be there(*)

Hmm, okay.  I think I misidentified what the intended subject was there.
I took the subject as "performance and memory use", which case there is
a tense mismatch (and it sticks out because "are" is used in the
previous sentence).  And it doesn't matter because it's getting cut :)

Thanks for writing up this rationale.

  reply	other threads:[~2020-04-09  1:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-07  9:49 [PATCH] doc: add technical/whyperl Eric Wong
2020-04-08  0:41 ` Kyle Meyer
2020-04-08 22:26   ` Eric Wong
2020-04-09  1:14     ` Kyle Meyer [this message]
     [not found] ` <87r1wyjlop.fsf@vuxu.org>
2020-04-08 22:17   ` Eric Wong
2020-04-08 22:37     ` Leah Neukirchen

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