OT: Syntax for if/then statement

[Bill Briggs]

At 2:22 PM -0400 6/29/06, T.W. Smith wrote:
>2) Click File, click New. That comma splice becomes, "Click File, then click New." which is technically incorrect and ought be "Click File, and then click New."

 But this isn't even the same construct. This is an imperative; a set of instructions: do something and then do something else. You can't put an "if" in front of this and have it make sense. So it's not the same construct as "If condition A is true, then condition B is true" (or alternately, "If condition A is true, then do B"). Totally different things.

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