On Thursday, June 29, 2006 12:43 PM the ever-sharp Bill Briggs noted
web At 12:33 PM -0600 6/29/06, Grant Hogarth, self-professed pedant,
wrote:
GHTo build still further on Eric's excellent discourse:
GHThere also exists the possibility of a conditional dependency of
action.
GH E.g. If your
I think you need to screen for editors better. I'm not a grammarian by
any stretch of the imagination, but I certainly know you don't use a
coordinating conjunction to string together dependent clauses in that
manner.
If you want icecream, and then you buy some.
Makes absolutely no sense. Time
At 11:22 -0600 29/6/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Our new editor wants to add the word and to such statements - if blah,
blah, AND then blah, blah. Both I and the other writer disagree with the
editor on this one - it should be just if/then - no and.
Boy are you going to have fun with your new
Donald, Christine, Jeremy, et. al.
LOL! This list makes my day. Believe you me, I would like to be blunt as
some of you were in your emails (the responses were hysterical!), but I
can summarize the responses (in a politically correct format, mind you!)
and go from there.
Thanks for all of
At 10:22 AM 6/29/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Our new editor wants to add the word and to such
statements - if blah, blah, AND then blah, blah. Both I and the other
writer disagree with the editor on this one - it should be just if/then -
no and.
Tammy,
I think your editor is overreacting
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Subject: Re: OT: Syntax for if/then statement
On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 11:22:20 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Our new editor wants to add the word and to such statements - if
blah, blah, AND then blah, blah. Both I and the other writer
disagree with the editor on this one
Steve Rickaby wrote on 06/29/2006 01:47:56 PM:
If/then and If/then/else or If/then/eiseif/else have been the
constructs in any programming language that I can remember working
in.
While I won't argue with the underlying point Steve's logic with respect
to the addition of an AND clause to
At 12:33 PM -0600 6/29/06, Grant Hogarth, self-professed pedant, wrote:
To build still further on Eric's excellent discourse:
There also exists the possibility of a conditional dependency of action.
E.g. If your book wins a Pulitzer, [then] you
[will/can/must/shall/may/ought
