[edk2] [edk2-CCodingStandardsSpecification PATCH 2/5] Fix Chapter 2 Typos

evan.lloyd@arm.com posted 5 patches 6 years, 11 months ago
[edk2] [edk2-CCodingStandardsSpecification PATCH 2/5] Fix Chapter 2 Typos
Posted by evan.lloyd@arm.com 6 years, 11 months ago
From: Evan Lloyd <evan.lloyd@arm.com>

2.1 Accessibility - remove erroneous "as"
2.1 Confirmation - insert missing full stop
2.1 Forgiveness - excise superfluous "errors"
2.1 Standard techniques - remove redundant "be to"

Contributed-under: TianoCore Contribution Agreement 1.1
Signed-off-by: Evan Lloyd <evan.lloyd@arm.com>
---
 2_guiding_principles.md | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/2_guiding_principles.md b/2_guiding_principles.md
index a7759f27dcf71a948b903332c9bc14946e445cd8..5a51225b65dec2159a4fb94481920666c0d042ff 100644
--- a/2_guiding_principles.md
+++ b/2_guiding_principles.md
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ The following is an alphabetical list of software design principles:
 **Accessibility**
 
 This entails designing objects and environments to be usable, with no
-modification, by the greatest number of people as possible, including people
+modification, by the greatest number of people possible, including people
 with varying educational and social backgrounds, as well as those with motor or
 sensory challenges.
 
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ shortterm memory, as well as to accommodate its limits.
 This is a technique used for critical actions, inputs, or commands.
 Confirmations are primarily used to prevent unintended actions. Minimize errors
 in critical or irreversible operations with confirmations. If you overuse
-confirmations, expect that they will be ignored Avoid overusing confirmations
+confirmations, expect that they will be ignored. Avoid overusing confirmations
 to ensure that they remain unexpected and uncommon; otherwise, they may be
 ignored. Use a two-step operation for hardware confirmations and dialogs for
 software confirmations.
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ about the assumptions you make.
 **Forgiveness**
 
 Design to help users avoid errors and reduce the negative consequences of
-errors any errors made. Recommended methods for achieving design forgiveness
+any errors made. Recommended methods for achieving design forgiveness
 include affordances, reversibility of actions, and safety nets. Effectively
 designing for forgiveness results in a design needing minimal confirmations,
 warnings, and help.
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ classes of platforms from embedded systems to massively parallel computers.
 
 Greater reliance on unique or exotic pieces makes a system harder to
 understand, and more intimidating for someone trying to understand it the first
-time. Using standardized, common approaches should be to give the whole system
+time. Using standardized, common approaches should give the whole system
 a familiar feeling. This standardization is one of the primary goals of this
 document.
 
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Re: [edk2] [edk2-CCodingStandardsSpecification PATCH 2/5] Fix Chapter 2 Typos
Posted by Laszlo Ersek 6 years, 11 months ago
On 01/03/18 12:22, evan.lloyd@arm.com wrote:
> From: Evan Lloyd <evan.lloyd@arm.com>
> 
> 2.1 Accessibility - remove erroneous "as"
> 2.1 Confirmation - insert missing full stop
> 2.1 Forgiveness - excise superfluous "errors"
> 2.1 Standard techniques - remove redundant "be to"
> 
> Contributed-under: TianoCore Contribution Agreement 1.1
> Signed-off-by: Evan Lloyd <evan.lloyd@arm.com>
> ---
>  2_guiding_principles.md | 8 ++++----
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/2_guiding_principles.md b/2_guiding_principles.md
> index a7759f27dcf71a948b903332c9bc14946e445cd8..5a51225b65dec2159a4fb94481920666c0d042ff 100644
> --- a/2_guiding_principles.md
> +++ b/2_guiding_principles.md
> @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ The following is an alphabetical list of software design principles:
>  **Accessibility**
>  
>  This entails designing objects and environments to be usable, with no
> -modification, by the greatest number of people as possible, including people
> +modification, by the greatest number of people possible, including people
>  with varying educational and social backgrounds, as well as those with motor or
>  sensory challenges.
>  
> @@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ shortterm memory, as well as to accommodate its limits.
>  This is a technique used for critical actions, inputs, or commands.
>  Confirmations are primarily used to prevent unintended actions. Minimize errors
>  in critical or irreversible operations with confirmations. If you overuse
> -confirmations, expect that they will be ignored Avoid overusing confirmations
> +confirmations, expect that they will be ignored. Avoid overusing confirmations
>  to ensure that they remain unexpected and uncommon; otherwise, they may be
>  ignored. Use a two-step operation for hardware confirmations and dialogs for
>  software confirmations.
> @@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ about the assumptions you make.
>  **Forgiveness**
>  
>  Design to help users avoid errors and reduce the negative consequences of
> -errors any errors made. Recommended methods for achieving design forgiveness
> +any errors made. Recommended methods for achieving design forgiveness
>  include affordances, reversibility of actions, and safety nets. Effectively
>  designing for forgiveness results in a design needing minimal confirmations,
>  warnings, and help.
> @@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ classes of platforms from embedded systems to massively parallel computers.
>  
>  Greater reliance on unique or exotic pieces makes a system harder to
>  understand, and more intimidating for someone trying to understand it the first
> -time. Using standardized, common approaches should be to give the whole system
> +time. Using standardized, common approaches should give the whole system
>  a familiar feeling. This standardization is one of the primary goals of this
>  document.
>  
> 


Reviewed-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
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