RE: How do you manage changes to names

["Jessica Weissman" <Jessica -dot- Weissman -at- hillcrestlabs -dot- com>]

Kevin:

You've put your finger on one of the reasons I lean toward "your
{prodnamevar}" and "the {prodnamevar}".  Since I'm writing for a
prototype consumer electronics product "your" works okay.  

Or you could get all fancy and have two vars, one called something like
indefArticleProdname that could be changed from "a BlenderGnome(tm)" to
"an eBlenderGnome(tm)" and one called justProdName that would be
"BlenderGnome(tm)" and later "eBlenderGnome(tm)".

-  Jessica

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Subject: RE: How do you manage changes to names

Ensure that the search-and-replace offers you a way to search and
replace all occurrences of "...a <prod-name-variable>" versus all
occurrences of "...an <prod-name-variable>".   Because you know that
Murphy will ensure that if the old product name began with a consonant
sound, the new one will begin with a vowel sound (or vice versa).

Or acquire and learn GREP and AWK.
Or, ensure that you never use indefinite articles in front of product
names.

Kevin



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