I found the following sentence while reading technical documentation but the use of "to which" doesn't seem right, which expression would you use here ?
Returns a list of lists where the elements to which function is true are grouped together.
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closed as too localized by jwpat7, JSBձոգչ, MετάEd, Andrew Leach, tchrist Aug 30 '12 at 0:31
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You're right: it doesn't make sense. In fact, without knowing the context, I'm not comfortable guessing at the actual meaning. But the most straightforward way I see here is: replace to with for, and function needs an article, presumably the:
So the command returns a list, which consists of lists of grouped elements for each of which the function (whatever it is) returns true. I hope I got the original intent right. |
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It seems correct to me. You could also write it like this:
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