Re: [boost] Final Getting Started Guide

From: Glenn Schrader (gschrad_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-01-02 15:41:41

Edward Diener wrote:
> Javier Estrada wrote:
>> I missed this typo in
>> http://www.boost-consulting.com/boost/more/getting_started/windows.html#
>> the-boost-distribution:
>>
>> 	This is is a sketch of the directory structure you'll end up
>> with:
>>
>> Should read:
>> 	This is a sketch of the directory structure you'll end up with:
>
> Actually I believe the grammatically correct English is:
>
> "This is a sketch of the directory structure up with which you will end."
>
> but I think one can get away with this:
>
> "This is a sketch of the directory structure with which you will end up."
>
> I was humorously taught in school ( attributed to Winston Churchill ):
>
> "Putting a preposition at the end of a sentence is something up with 
> which I will not put."
>
> but perhaps we can relax Churchill's dictum for the sake of Boost <g>
Have a look at http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/churchill.html for some 
interesting
background on this. There seem to be quite a view variations on what he 
was supposed
to have said.

-glenn