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<HR><H2>Re: [COLD] FIX: $english_lib:indef_article(), ColdCore 3.0a9.02</H2>
<H3>daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fri Aug 29 17:08:38 1997
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Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 14:01:48 -0700 (PDT)
From: Brian Buchanan &lt;brian@wasteland.calbbs.com&gt;
To: "Luther, Clay" &lt;clay@selsius.com&gt;
cc: "ColdStuff Mailing List (E-mail)" &lt;coldstuff@cold.org&gt;
In-Reply-To: &lt;D17232971415D11196C700600819851547E1@raphaelo.paradise.selsius.com&gt;

&gt; Fix:
&gt; 
&gt; Since we only care about examining the first word in a multiple word
&gt; name for "an" exceptions, the fix is to split off the first word of the
&gt; argument passed to the exception routines.  This coercion occurs within
&gt; both routines rather than in the calling method, indef_article(), on the
&gt; off chance that some other method might also want to call these methods
&gt; someday.

Easier and cleaner fix, which I just implemented:  Prepend the
vowel_exceptions and nonvowel_exceptions regexps with a "^" to make them
match only against the beginning of the string. 

Brian


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