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Subject Re: java software naming question
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Roedy Green wrote:
> Lew wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :
>>Do you deny this assertion?
> 
> That particular sentence does not have a problem, but if you scanned

That particular sentence was the one you yourself selected to illustrate the problem.

> my entire website you would find some split infinitives that I did
> deliberately because the alternative was ambiguous or awkward.
> 
> My assertion is that splitting the infinitive is not ambiguous. I am

I do not disagree.

> not asserting that not splitting the infinitive is always ambiguous,
> just sometimes.
> 
> Avoiding split infinitives seems to me a silly rule.  I can't see any

True.

> advantage in it.

The original advantage was that the rule made English more like Latin.

-- 
Lew

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