> On Aug 1, 2016, at 4:36 PM, Dj Hoffman <d...@delphix.com> wrote: > > Hello all, > At Delphix we are working on a patch to remove gendered pronouns > (he/she/his/hers/him/her/himself/herself) in favor of gender-neutral singular > pronouns (they(1)/them/themself(2)/it/its) when they don't reference specific > people. Chris Williamson and I found numerous references where users are > referred to as "he", which we replaced with variants on "they". In addition, > we found instances where threads, servers, functions, and other inanimate > objects were referred to as "he" and we replaced them with variants on "it". > If you have any questions about why we feel this change is necessary please > do not hesitate to email us directly or reply to this thread. We will be > putting out a review on developer once it has gone through our internal > review process.
That's a helluva lot easier than doing the old "every other chapter switch genders", since we don't have chapters in the source code. :) I'm not just fine with this change, I support it. (And I'm assuming no binaries change with this fix, correct?) Thanks a ton for this, Dan ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
