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From: rowan.collins@gmail.com (Rowan Collins)

Ford, Mike wrote (on 04/12/2013):
> And, BTW, can the grammatical error in that message be fixed, please?
> "In case" should be "If".
>
> <minor-rant>
> (This is a mistake I often see particularly from people whose native
> language is a Germanic one -- which would include Dutch! I find this
> usage particularly jarring, since as a native English speaker I
> interpret a sentence beginning "In case" in a completely different way,
> and then have to re-parse half-way through when I realise it should have
> begun "If". Roughly speaking, I take "In case x..." to mean something
> like "As a preventative measure against the unlikely event that x should
> happen..." -- as in "In case this function call throws an Exception, we
> wrap it in a try/catch block.".)
> </minor_rant>

Parse error: unexpected closing tag "minor_rant" expecting "minor-rant"
:P
(sorry, couldn't resist...)

-- 
Rowan Collins
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