Re: [PATCH v7 1/5] string_helpers: Escape double quotes in escape_special

[Steven Rostedt]

On Wed, 16 Jun 2021 11:08:18 +0300
Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 07:05:25PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > On 6/15/21 5:00 PM, Chris Down wrote:  
> > > Andy Shevchenko writes:  
> > >>> I've checked uses of ESCAPE_SPECIAL and %pE across the codebase, and I'm  
> > >>
> > >> checked the uses  
> > > 
> > > Hmm, what's wrong with using the zero article for "checked uses"? I mean, I don't have any strong resistance, but I don't see anything wrong with it either, and it matches how I'd naturally speak.
> > > 
> > > Agreed on the others, though, hopefully they can be massaged in :-)  
> > 
> > Ack, I don't see anything wrong with it either.  
> 
> I guess you know better than me :-)
> 
> I'm just a mere non-native speaker here to whom it's stylistically harder to
> parse without the article.

English is weird. It sounds fine to me with and without the "the" article,
but I'll say having "the" does make it a little smoother, and probably
better for the non-native speaking folks.

Technically, I'm a native speaker, but I prefer to say my mother tongue is C. ;-)

-- Steve