GNU bug report logs - #51930
27.2; Buffer-local functions? Buffers specified buffer-locally?

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2021 21:52:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 27.2

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #52 received at 51930 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
To: Phil Sainty <psainty <at> orcon.net.nz>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 51930 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, larsi <at> gnus.org, drew.adams <at> oracle.com
Subject: Re: bug#51930: 27.2;
 Buffer-local functions? Buffers specified buffer-locally?
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2022 23:21:42 -0700

Phil Sainty <psainty <at> orcon.net.nz> 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.
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