RE: The GUI shall do...

[Fred Ridder <docudoc -at- hotmail -dot- com>]

Chris Morton wrote:

> Instead, I'm calling on our engineers to please write their spec docs using
> present tense and to avoid *shall* at all costs!

But in the context of a spec doc, "shall" has nothing to do with tense. In that context it is synonymous with "must" or "has to", *not* with "will". 

As Richard said (or wrote, actually): audience and purpose.

-Fred Ridder


 		 	   		  
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