Re: [PHP] Quotes vs. Single Quote

[email protected] (Bill Guion)
Newsgroups php.general
Message-ID <p06240802c881d7942252@[192.168.1.6]>
At 8:31 AM -0400 08/06/10, tedd wrote:

>Cheers,
>
>tedd
>
>PS: Considering that this is Friday. I have a grammar question for 
>the group. I said above:
>
>"neither CSS, PHP, or any web language exist in a vacuum."
>
>Is the word "neither" appropriate in this sentence?
>
>Normally, two items can be compared by "neither"  or "nor", but what 
>about more than two items? Is it appropriate to use "neither"  or 
>"nor" for more than two items?

Somewhere along the line, probably in college (if it were before 
college, it would have been so long ago I would have forgotten it), a 
professor said to handle this sort of thing thusly:

neither A, nor B, nor C ....

A little more wordy, but completely unambiguous.

      -----===== Bill =====-----
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