[mod.std.unix] P1003 Draft 6 -- Comments, criticisms etc.; V4N11; V4N17

std-unix@ut-sally.UUCP (Moderator, John Quarterman) (12/19/85)

From seismo!rochester!rocksanne!sunybcs!colonel Mon Dec 16 22:27:37 1985
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 85 14:12:42 EST
From: seismo!rochester!rocksanne!sunybcs!colonel (Col. G. L. Sicherman)
Message-Id: <8512161912.AA18129@gort.SUNYAB>
To: ut-sally!std-unix
Subject: Re: P1003 Draft 6 -- Comments, criticisms etc.; V4N11
In-Reply-To: your article <3784@ut-sally.UUCP>

> Date: Wed, 11 Dec 85 17:06:10 EST
> From: Arnold Robbins <arnold%gatech.csnet@CSNET-RELAY.ARPA>
> 
> Sect 2.6 Environment Description:
> 
> 	It is recommended the follwoing variable names....
> 
> Should be "It is recommended that the..."
>                              ^^^^

If you're going to hack the gobbledygook, you might as well get it out
of the passive voice: "We recommend that the ..."

Volume-Number: Volume 4, Number 17