Re: Stylistic changes to tree-sitter code

[Stefan Kangas]

Yuan Fu <casouri@gmail.com> writes:

> Also, out of curiosity, I thought active voice is good and passive
> voice is bad? Though the subject here doesn’t add any useful
> information, I recon.

I don't have an opinion about this particular change, but I don't think
we apply that in such a blanket fashion (i.e. "passive voice = bad").

Richard gave this advice on 15 October:

> The proposed manual text includes several sentences which use passive
> voice and would be shorter in active voice.  Occasionally the use of
> passive voice is best approach, but usually not, so please try making
> them active and see if that makes the text more readable.

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