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I personally would have gone with: > The author spends a lot of effort trying to make their functions point free.
by codygman 12y ago
I personally would have gone with:
> The author spends a lot of effort trying to make their functions point free.
- JadeNB 12y agoThen your answer to peteretep's question (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9188477 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9188477) "Would you have rather the commenter have said 'their'?" is 'yes', which is fine. I agreed with what I took (emphasis: my interpretation, not endorsed by peteretep) to be the subtext of that question, namely that the use of 'their' in that context is undesireable, and argued that it was not the only alternative to a gendered pronoun.