Dar Scott writes: Here is one way to remember which one to use... Either "on" or "onto" can be used to show movement to a location in English. Though "on" is most common, it can be ambiguous and "onto" is clearer. The programming language uses the clearer preposition. ------------------- It may be clearer for a real, English-speaking and thinking human, but no clearer to the metacard engine! The easiest syntax is thus always going to be the most frequent. A quick collocation analysis confirms my suspicions: whereas "on" is number 4 in the 'place' collate list, with a whopping T-score of over 11, 'onto' didn't show up at all in the top 100, and 'place' is also not in the top 100 as a collate for 'onto'. So 'place X on' is not just a little more common then 'place X onto..' , it appears to be vastly more common. And since there is no need to worry about ambiguity when you are talking to a software engine with a very limited vocabulary, if the writers of X-talk were striving for the most natural syntax (and I assume they were, since that is the whole point of a higher-level language) 'onTO' was clearly a mistake. I'm sorry, was I raving? :-)
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