Re: Can someone explain this?
Re: Can someone explain this?
- Subject: Re: Can someone explain this?
- From: Michelle Steiner <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 20:41:18 -0700
On Mar 20, 2009, at 6:29 PM, Bruce Brown wrote:
I can't comment on excluding/including the "the," except to say
that, any language that depends on an English article being used or
not used to determine the interpretation is lacking in clarity of
language design. Moreover, if the "the" MUST be used in some places,
MUST NOT be used in other places, and is OPTIONAL in still other
places, well--that's a recipe for disaster, in my book. Ideally, the
"the" should be optional everywhere, even if removing it everywhere
makes the program read like it's been written in some kind of
broken, Pidgin English. Broken English or not, it should still do
what it's supposed to do, and what the programmer expected it to do.
Theoretically, "the" is optional everywhere except for "the
clipboard"; however, as you have seen in this thread, there are places
where using it will cause problems.
The reason that "the clipboard" requires "the" is that it was a third-
party OSAX that Apple either bought or licensed, and that is how the
third party wrote it.
-- Michelle
--
"That boy ain't got no culture. You talk about Dylan, and he think
you're talking about Dylan Thomas."
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