On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 09:42:05 -0600, "Janet M. Swisher"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Janet M. Swisher wrote:
>
> > John Kane wrote:
> >
> >> Proposed addition to Getting Started with Calc (pg. 22) Section
> >> Entering Numbers as text.
> >>
> >>
> >> Explicitly declaring a variable as text does not mean that you cannot
> >> perform arithmetic operations on it. It just means that the results will
> >> be wrong.
> >>
> > I suggest recasting the first sentence without the double negative:
> >
> > "If you explicitly declare a variable, you can still perform
> > arithmethic operations on it; however, the results of those operations
> > will not be what you might expect."
> >
> > (I don't mean "double negative" in the sense of grammatically
> > incorrect ("I can't get no satisfaction") -- I just mean that two
> > negative clauses can be hard to understand.)
> >
> Oops, I hope it's obvious that I meant to rewrite that as:
>
> If you explicitly declare a variable as text ...
Yes much clearer and the "... might not expect" is a bit more diplomatic
than I was :) I think though I would like to add "Even"
"Even if you explicitly declare a variable ..." to stress that what you
may think you are doing may not work.
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