the mechanism has to prevent developers from firing events that they did not specify.

Is the pronoun they ambiguous here or does it clearly refers to developers?

Thank you in advance.

Hi Jonathan, sorry for the lack of context in the sentence. I was writing a manual for work and this question came up. Developers fire events so I want the pronoun they to refer to developers not to events. For instance the mechanism has to prevent developers from firing events that they did not spe...

Thank you very much for the explanation.

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