From: "Theo de Raadt" <deraadt@openbsd.org>
Subject: Re: Diff: Minor Improvement to Sentence
To: tech@openbsd.org
Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2024 10:51:15 -0600

Jason McIntyre <jmc@kerhand.co.uk> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 08, 2024 at 09:03:30AM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote:
> >      clients.  It listens for IPv6 router advertisement messages, for example
> >      those sent by rad(8), on interfaces with the AUTOCONF6 flag set.  slaacd
> > 
> > I'd flip the sentence around to state the dependent sitation first, and
> > avoid the vague word "it".
> > 
> >     For interfaces with the AUTOCONF6 flag set, slaacd(8) listens for IPv6
> >     router advertisement messages [...]
> > 
> 
> i'd say it's better to say what it does first. that's its reason for
> being. then qualify how/when later.

Well, I disagree.  The usual way to describe any decision leading to
an operation is to use the form:

      IF condition, do OPERATION.

rather than:

       do OPERATION, IF condition.