Timeline for Pluralizing keywords in programming languages [duplicate]
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| Jan 14, 2013 at 11:49 | history | edited | RegDwigнt | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 14, 2013 at 11:24 | answer | added | Jon Hanna | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jan 14, 2013 at 10:53 | history | edited | RegDwigнt | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 16, 2011 at 5:41 | comment | added | Mateen Ulhaq | Try this, catch. | |
| Dec 2, 2010 at 19:43 | vote | accept | aaronasterling | ||
| Dec 2, 2010 at 19:39 | comment | added | Konrad Rudolph | @aaron: (re Jon’s suggestion) that’s in fact how I would handle it. | |
| Dec 2, 2010 at 19:18 | comment | added | aaronasterling | @Konrad Rudolph. Indeed. Looking at my previous comment, I'd say that you're more able than me this morning. Great comic. I too think that you might be in the minority. As a member of the minority, what do you think of Jon Purdy's suggestion of putting keywords in quotes and pluralizing that normally? Do you think "try"s Looks alright? | |
| Dec 2, 2010 at 19:08 | comment | added | Konrad Rudolph | @aaron: that was my point: it looks horrible to my eyes. But I actually agree with you: it’s more important how it looks than that it conforms to a set of arbitrary rules that some Latin-obsessed 17th century introverts have decided upon. And I think that I’m probably in the minority with my taste. | |
| Dec 2, 2010 at 18:59 | comment | added | aaronasterling | @Hellion. 1) It's too long in my source and I would like to avoid doing something storing it in a string and then passing it. 2) I'm curious about how to pluralize these and even if I do end up splitting it a across lines, (which I'm currently doing) I'd want to know how I would have pluralized it. It seems weird that there would be non-mass nouns that can't be pluralized. | |
| Dec 2, 2010 at 18:55 | comment | added | aaronasterling | @Martha - Excellent idea. | |
| Dec 2, 2010 at 18:46 | comment | added | aaronasterling | @Konrad Rudolph - From the wiki - apostrophes are used whe their omission would "leave things ambiguous or inelegant." In this case, I lean towards the inelegant clause. At any rate, I'm much more concerned with how this looks to the eyes able English speakers than in any artificial 'rules' which some elite might or might not have written down :) | |
| Dec 2, 2010 at 18:39 | comment | added | aaronasterling | @Colin Fine - That question certainly does a fine job of answering my question for being a duplicate. As I pointed out - it doesn't. | |
| Dec 2, 2010 at 17:10 | comment | added | Marthaª | Is "no implementation for..." a technical term? Because on the face of it, I'd write something like Global-level 'try' is not implemented. | |
| Dec 2, 2010 at 15:44 | comment | added | Hellion | Speaking to it from a programming perspective, what on earth is "too long" about a simple 50-character sentence? The original is straightforward and understandable to your target audience; why do you need to shorten it further? | |
| Dec 2, 2010 at 15:07 | answer | added | user597 | timeline score: 5 | |
| Dec 2, 2010 at 12:07 | comment | added | Konrad Rudolph | Whatever else, but the apostrophe is just horribly wrong there. It’s neither a possessive nor an omission. But see also (Wikipedia) Apostrophe: use in forming certain plurals. | |
| Dec 2, 2010 at 7:36 | answer | added | Jon Purdy | timeline score: 7 | |
| Dec 2, 2010 at 6:39 | answer | added | VonC | timeline score: 7 | |
| Dec 2, 2010 at 6:25 | history | asked | aaronasterling | CC BY-SA 2.5 |