Rebeka Thomas wrote:
Edmund Wong wrote:
As the computer and mathematical types would see it, it goes like this:
performance = motivation = (total_interest - self_pity)
Needs a period at the end. Mathematical formulas don't need them on
their own, but anything inserted into a sentence is still inserted into
the sentence, and the sentence needs a period at its send.
It actually resembles a computer statement more than a mathematical
formula, and that needs a semicolon at the end. that will also offset
the awkwardness of having a right paren followed by a period.
If this was all code, or even multiple lines of code, then yes. My
point is that the surrounding context - namely, a work of fiction in
English, rather than a computer program - dictates the grammar rules.
My suggestion was a semicolon followed by a period, actually.
The form this fic manifests itself as is a test of my English literacy
skills. More than anything, it is proof to myself that I can write about
more than classes and linked lists in English.
I'd say the proof is successful, at least for a true/false test.
true/false as in csh or sh? the difference is csh has 0/1 for true/false
while sh has 1/0.
True as in the English use of the term. ;P
heh.