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Vikram A Punathambekar

Why did you remove the 'the'? The Lounge, the Soapbox... the Purgatory?

Cheers, Vikram.

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Ashley van Gerven

Obviously the variables should have been strings to make the code easier to understand! Dim DeleteColZero As String = "Yes" :-D

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CP article: SmartPager - a Flickr-style pager control with go-to-page popup layer.

Bradml

dim DesignSense As Bolean = False

Brad Australian - Christian Graus on "Best books for VBscript" A big thick one, so you can whack yourself on the head with it.

Bradml

function ReturnYes(){ return true; } function ReturnNo(){ return false; } function ReturnPerhaps(){ return rand(); } Dim DeleteColZero As returnYes

Brad Australian - Christian Graus on "Best books for VBscript" A big thick one, so you can whack yourself on the head with it.

Colin Angus Mackay

Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:

Why did you remove the 'the'? The Lounge, the Soapbox... the Purgatory?

That was explained here[^] In short. When the noun is a singleton the "the" is dropped. When it one instance of a class of many it needs an article ("a", "an", "one" or "the")

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ednrgc

I see code like this whenever I go through outsourced code. My current company doesn't outsource, but I had several WTF moments in past assignments. I can't help but wonder if they are getting paid by line of code, and not the total functionality of the deliverable.

ednrgc

BTW: Was your WTF because it's in VB? :laugh:

Vikram A Punathambekar

I still tend to disagree. (Not with your rule, but with dropping the 'the' before Purgatory.) We only have one Lounge, one SB and one Purgatory. Given that the Lounge and the SB are also singletons, are you saying the correct version is "Don't post programming questions in Lounge"? Also, the rule has many exceptions: Don't look at the Sun directly. He spent three years in the Crimea. The Gambia is surrounded by Senegal.

Cheers, Vikram.

"...we are disempowered to cultivate in their communities an inclination to assimilate to our culture." - Stan Shannon.

Colin Angus Mackay

Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:

Given that the Lounge and the SB are also singletons, are you saying the correct version is "Don't post programming questions in Lounge"?

They are not singletons. I have a lounge in my house, as to my parents. The lounge is one instance of a class. The Soapbox is something that many polititians stand on in order to tell the world their views. Just because here in Code Project there is only one lounge does not mean your drop the article. If you read any well written, grammatically correct, article on the subect of Purgatory you will see that it is never preceded by the word "the" or "a".

Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:

Don't look at the Sun directly.

Incorrect, the sun is a single instance of a class that has many instantiations. There are many suns in our galaxy. (You can say "Don't look at Sol directly" - as there is only one instance of Sol, which is the name of our sun)

Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:

He spent three years in the Crimea.

The correct form is "The Crimea" (note the capital T on The). The two words together make up a proper noun. I've also seen in many texts it refered to as simply "Crimea" also.

Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:

The Gambia is surrounded by Senegal.

Again, "The Gambia" is a proper noun. Also, many people refer to it as simply "Gambia"

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Vikram A Punathambekar

Colin Angus Mackay wrote:

They are not singletons. I have a lounge in my house, as to my parents. The lounge is one instance of a class.

In this context, they are.

Colin Angus Mackay wrote:

If you read any well written, grammatically correct, article on the subect of Purgatory you will see that it is never preceded by the word "the" or "a".

I think we have to agree to disagree on this. However, you do have a point - Heaven and Hell are never prefixed with 'the'.

Colin Angus Mackay wrote:

Incorrect, the sun is a single instance of a class that has many instantiations.

Again, this is a question of taste. The sun is a star like many others, but there is *one* Sun, and many stars. Aliens may beg to differ... ;P

Colin Angus Mackay wrote:

The correct form is "The Crimea" (note the capital T on The). The two words together make up a proper noun. I've also seen in many texts it refered to as simply "Crimea" also.

Are you saying that the 'The' before 'Crimea' is simply a part of the name and not an article? :~ More exceptions to your original rule: * Hyderabad is considered the Queen of the Deccan. (there is only one Deccan) * Cairo is situated on the banks of the Nile. * The highest mountain range in the world is the Himalayas. A Scot and an Indian arguing on arcane aspects of English grammar. Hee hee. :-D

Cheers, Vikram.

"...we are disempowered to cultivate in their communities an inclination to assimilate to our culture." - Stan Shannon.

Colin Angus Mackay

Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:

Colin Angus Mackay wrote: If you read any well written, grammatically correct, article on the subect of Purgatory you will see that it is never preceded by the word "the" or "a". I think we have to agree to disagree on this.

Why? Can you show me an example of a well written article that puts "the" in front of the word "purgatory" when it is used as a noun? If you can, then I'll concede that you are right.

Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:

Again, this is a question of taste. The sun is a star like many others, but there is *one* Sun, and many stars. Aliens may beg to differ...

:rolleyes:

Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:

Are you saying that the 'The' before 'Crimea' is simply a part of the name and not an article? More exceptions to your original rule: * Hyderabad is considered the Queen of the Deccan. (there is only one Deccan) * Cairo is situated on the banks of the Nile. * The highest mountain range in the world is the Himalayas.

Yes, and the examples you give are all proper nouns too.

Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:

A Scot and an Indian arguing on arcane aspects of English grammar

I know. But my native languge is only spoken by a small percentage of the population now. It was beaten out of us. (My mother was punished at school for using even short phrases of it)

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