grammar

[Matthew D. Fuller]

On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 02:36:25PM -0700 I heard the voice of
Matthew Hunt, and lo! it spake thus:
> On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 07:20:26AM +1000, Sue Blake wrote:
> 
> > Recently I provided some IT staff with the documentation for a
> > new piece of software. Many times it said things like "In case
> > Foo, do Bar". The users (correctly in my view) read that as
> > advice of a precaution worth taking, and took it.
> 
> Could this be a .us-vs-.au issue?  Here in the US, at least, it is
> common for fire alarms to have instructions like "In case of fire, pull
> handle."  And I interpreted your examples the way the author intended,
> although I understand the ambiguity.  Certainly mothers here will tell
> their kids to carry sweaters "in case it cools off."

And actually, I read that as a program:
[...]
    case Foo:
        bar();
        break;

:-}



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