[clang] [Doc] Update documentation for no-transitive-change (PR #96453)

Chuanqi Xu via cfe-commits cfe-commits at lists.llvm.org
Tue Jun 25 19:39:44 PDT 2024


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@@ -652,6 +652,134 @@ in the future. The expected roadmap for Reduced BMIs as of Clang 19.x is:
    comes, the term BMI will refer to the Reduced BMI and the Full BMI will only
    be meaningful to build systems which elect to support two-phase compilation.
 
+Experimental No Transitive Change
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ChuanqiXu9 wrote:

> I'd like to find a better term than "no transitive change" -- this doesn't work well as a noun phrase in English, so we say awkward things like "...the no transitive change feature can be more powerful if ..." I think what bothers me about is the "no" and "change" part -- "change" is a verb, so it comes out sounding verb-like and we end up tacking on "feature" to try to make it a noun again.

While I respect the feelings from native speakers, Google told me that `change` can be a noun too. For the `no` part, may be we can use the term `less`? So that the feature name become to `less transitive change`, which may be more precise since there should always some changes are transitive.

> "no-cascade" feature?

I didn't know this word `cascade` before. I think it may be appropriate after I searched it. I can replace with it if we're happy with that.

> "isolated BMI"

`isolated` may not be accurate. Since the BMI still depends on other BMIs.

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/96453


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