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| Date | Tue, 16 Apr 2013 12:44:19 +1000 |
| From | Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> |
| To | Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: Grammar question: Englisn and Python: qualified names |
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On 15Apr2013 07:50, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
| Quirky question time!
|
| When you read out a qualified name, eg collections.OrderedDict, do you
| read the qualifier ("collections dot ordered dict"), or do you elide
| it ("ordered dict")? I ask because it makes a difference to talking
| about just one of them:
|
| ... or possibly a collections.OrderedDict...
| ... or possibly an collections.OrderedDict...
|
| Written, the latter looks completely wrong; but if the name is read in
| its short form, with the "collections" part being implicit, then "an"
| is clearly correct! What do you think, experts and others?
I do the former.
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Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au>
Nothing is so smiple that it can't get screwed up.
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