| Ford, Mike 2006-04-27, 7:58 am |
| On 27 April 2006 07:11, bugs at jlevine dot oiiiio dot net wrote:
> I would also recommend rephrasing the fragment of the preceding line
> from: "it was unknown that the object will be named $cart or
> $another_cart later." to
> "it was unknown whether the object would be named $cart,
> $another_cart, or something else later."
Well, if we're being really, really picky (which, apparently, we are ;), th=
is should probably also be "it would have been unknown...".
But, personally, I'm thankful enough that there are so many non-native Engl=
ish speakers prepared to keep the manual in such good shape that I tend to =
let small imprecisions like this go, so long as the intent is obvious and u=
nambiguous.
(Mind you, I could put together a small list of words and constructs that n=
on-native-speakers seem to get consistently wrong, if I could be bothered t=
o be bothered about it. ;)
Cheers!
Mike
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