Re: ANN: Ada 2005 Math Extensions, 20100810 release

["Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>]

On Sat, 14 Aug 2010 17:12:23 +0100, Simon Wright wrote:

> "Yannick Duch�ne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr> writes:
> 
>>>    procedure P (Q : Generic_S.Foo_Of);   -- huh?
>>
>> This would turn this into
>>
>>    procedure P (Q : Generic_S.Foo_Of);
> 
> Sorry. Hoping not to annoy anyone further ...
> 
> I meant, as a native English speaker, I don't understand what Dmitry
> meant when he tacked _Of on the end. There's no English grammatical
> construction that that corresponds to.

I did it merely because Of_Foo would be worse.

Only after you wrote it I became aware that this is a grammar issue. "may I
end a sentence with a preposition" gives 2,580,000 results in Google.
People are running polls. Wow!

My Michael Swan's "Practical English Usage" just gives constructions where
a preposition is put at the ends of clauses:

wh-questions: "Who for?"
relative clauses: "That's what I'm afraid of"
passives: "I hate being laughed at"
infinitive structures: "Their house isn't easy to get to"

without any comments about the ongoing battle...

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Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de