Subject: Re: bug#51930: 27.2; Buffer-local functions? Buffers specified buffer-locally?

From: Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2022 23:21:42 -0700

Phil Sainty <[email-masked]> writes:

> I personally disagree that the double passive tense is bad here,
> but here's another alternative:

That alternative is indeed less clear than what you had before.

    "Never use the passive where you can use the active."
                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    —George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language," April 1946

Note the qualifier.