Thorsten Ottosen wrote:
brass goowy skrev:
utility_class.html says, "Recall that many default constructed iterators are singular..."
I didn't find other uses of the word singular in the documentation and am not sure what you mean. Are you saying they are not meant to be range endpoints?
I was also unfamiliar with that term; a note would be useful.
In that last paragraph I quoted, there are two places where it says, "an Forward." I think those should be "a Forward."
[not sure which bit your question is about]
Do other native native English speakers agree?
Yes. By chance, I just saw this in the changelog for the linux man pages: Justin Pryzby / mtk Fix incorrect usage of "a" and "an" before following vowel / consonant, by reviewing the output of the following scripts: for a in $(wc */*.? | awk '$1 > 10 {print $4}' | gv total); do echo $a MANWIDTH=4000 man -l $a 2>/dev/null | egrep '(^| )an [^aeiou][a-z]' done | less for a in $(wc */*.? | awk '$1 > 10 {print $4}' | gv total); do echo $a MANWIDTH=4000 man -l $a 2>/dev/null | \ egrep '(^| )a [aeiou][a-z]' done| less
And swapping "is" and "however" in the last sentence would make it easier to read.
Do other native native English speakers agree?
I would put "however" right at the start of the sentence. But that's not considered good style by some. Given the two options I would choose "The biggest difference, however, is that a ...". Phil.