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Re: Your commit 7409a79
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: Your commit 7409a79 |
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Wed, 10 Dec 2014 03:24:47 -0500 |
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> Write documentation strings in the active voice, not the passive,
> and in the present tense, not the future. For instance, use
> Return a list containing A and B. instead of A list containing A
> and B will be returned.
Thanks. I should probably move the advice from there into the GNU
standards, since they are applicable to any manual.
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