From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Jim Blandy <jimb@red-bean.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] Alternate approach to keeping convenience variables
Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 18:12:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <uek4le3ad.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8f2776cb0512091810k38454fc0vf7028b73f3008435@mail.gmail.com> (message from Jim Blandy on Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:10:36 -0800)
> Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:10:36 -0800
> From: Jim Blandy <jimb@red-bean.com>
>
> Whoa. Being bossy wasn't on my mind. I did write imperative
> sentences, but only because it was terser than writing "I think", "How
> about", etc. each time.
Sometimes, one can be in the mood whereby reading a too imperative
language would annoy a lot.
FWIW, I generally find that adding "I think", "How about", "IMO", and
similar phrases, while it wastes a little bandwidth, is worth that
waste in gold in terms of making the discussion more pleasant and
constructive. So much so that I now re-read every message before
sending and add such reservations and qualifications in every sentence
that isn't saying something that is 200% obvious.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-10 8:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-21 22:05 [PATCH] keeping convenience variables (take 2) Andrew STUBBS
2005-11-22 4:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-11-22 8:43 ` Jim Blandy
2005-11-22 19:27 ` Andrew STUBBS
2005-12-10 4:46 ` [RFC] Alternate approach to keeping convenience variables Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-12-10 5:07 ` Jim Blandy
2005-12-10 8:24 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-12-10 22:20 ` Jim Blandy
2005-12-11 18:12 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2005-12-11 19:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-01-23 22:29 ` Jim Blandy
2006-01-24 11:44 ` Andrew STUBBS
2006-01-24 18:41 ` Jim Blandy
2006-01-24 18:43 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-01-24 19:16 ` Jim Blandy
2006-01-24 19:24 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-01-25 0:13 ` Jim Blandy
2006-01-24 19:45 ` Andrew STUBBS
2006-01-04 12:17 ` Andrew STUBBS
2006-01-04 17:00 ` Jim Blandy
2006-01-04 17:48 ` Andrew STUBBS
2006-01-04 18:37 ` Jim Blandy
2006-01-22 21:04 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-01-22 21:31 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-01-23 22:46 ` Jim Blandy
2006-01-27 17:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-01-27 18:12 ` Jim Blandy
2006-01-27 18:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-01-27 18:41 ` Joel Brobecker
2006-02-01 23:14 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-02-02 4:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-02-06 22:14 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
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