Active verbs describe an operation or a process. Passive verbs describe a
state.
I'm afraid a spec HAS to be all about state, not about operations. At least
if we talk about what is the correct place for a class file.

We could say the file is being put or created in a place, but this is
missing the point. We don't care about the process of creating a file, just
about the result.


2013/10/23 AmyStephen <notifications@github.com>

> In proposed/psr-4-autoloader/psr-4-autoloader.md:
>
> >
> > -  2. For every combination of _namespace prefix_ and _directory_ found,
> > -  take the _relative class name_  replace every _namespace separator_ in
> > -  it with a directory separator. Append the ".php" suffix, and append the result
> > -  to the _base path_, to obtain a _file path_.
> > -
> > -  3. If any of the _file paths_ obtained this way points to an existing file,
> > -  then include or require exactly one of these files.
> > +  1. One of the _namespace prefixes_ of the class MUST correspond to one of the
> > +  _directory prefixes_ of the class file path.
> > +
> > +  2. The _relative file path_ MUST be equal to the result of replacing each
>
> Wherever possible, active verbs aid understandability, passive tense can
> be confusing and overly complex.
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