#9419: Update Developers Guide to state how patches should be made.
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Reporter: drkirkby | Owner: mvngu
Type: enhancement | Status: needs_review
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-4.8
Component: documentation | Keywords: patch doc howto spkgs diff
Work_issues: | Upstream: N/A
Reviewer: | Author:
Merged: | Dependencies:
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Comment(by drkirkby):
Replying to [comment:17 jhpalmieri]:
> For the "typo" referred to above: should we say "a spkg" or "an spkg"?
The style seems to be the latter, which is what my patch uses. So I don't
think I need to change anything.
This is another thing I don't have a strong feeling about.
http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/a-versus-an.aspx
says:
''The rule is that you use a before words that start with a consonant
sound and an before words that start with a vowel sound (1).''
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_articles#Discrimination_between_a_and_an
basically says the same thing, but is less clear about it.
The letter 's' is certainly a consonant, and not a vowel, and I don't
think 'spkg' sounds like a vowel (as for example 'hour' does, despite it
starting with a consonant). So I would have thought it should have been "a
spkg" and not "an spkg". But it's not a big deal.
Dave
I guess 'spkg' is not a word, and I don't know if its an abbreviation for
something.
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