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<p>Hi, thank you for the feedback.</p>
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<p>> <span>Further, the simple test for the next word starting with a vowel isn't as useful as it could be. Consider the case of an abbreviation or initialism such as 'FTD'. It should be 'an FTD'. Plenty of very confusing an not necessarily logical cases to
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<p><span>Yes, but that's state of the art as well. There are even more exception: 'a honor' would also be wrong. Fixing them all might be indeed a multilingual problem, and I actually did not want to touch that issue. My only desire was to avoid this nasty duplication
which indeed affects the readability of several #printOn: methods ...</span></p>
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<p><span>Best,</span></p>
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<div id="x_divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>Von:</b> Squeak-dev <squeak-dev-bounces@lists.squeakfoundation.org> im Auftrag von tim Rowledge <tim@rowledge.org><br>
<b>Gesendet:</b> Dienstag, 21. Januar 2020 00:00:05<br>
<b>An:</b> The general-purpose Squeak developers list<br>
<b>Betreff:</b> Re: [squeak-dev] Changeset: articles.1.cs</font>
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> On 2020-01-20, at 2:10 PM, Chris Muller <asqueaker@gmail.com> wrote:<br>
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> Sorry Christoph, I'm not a fan of this one. IMO, such an abstraction isn't worth poaching such a common word, #article<br>
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I pretty much agree - and in any case it ought to be #indefiniteArticle, at least in English. Further, the simple test for the next word starting with a vowel isn't as useful as it could be. Consider the case of an abbreviation or initialism such as 'FTD'.
It should be 'an FTD'. Plenty of very confusing an not necessarily logical cases to get lost in!<br>
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