Re: Grammar issues

[Wolfgang Laun]

Warning: English is not my first language.

On Wed, 27 Apr 2022 at 23:29, Alan Welsh via Bug reports only for gawk. <
bug-gawk@gnu.org> wrote:

>
> "Assigning a timeout value prevents read operations from blocking
> indefinitely.
>
> BUT,
>
> The verb "block" cannot be used intransitively here,
>

Webster's appears to agree with you,
BUT
Googling for "concurrency" or "how to prevent blocking" finds a lot of
places where "to block", gerund or otherwise, is indeed used
intransitively. Examples can be found in
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-blocking_algorithm. I've been reading the
English literature on concurrency since 1974 and have grown accustomed to
this arguably sloppy usage. Perhaps you could be a wee bit more tolerant in
this case?

Cheers
Wolfgang