Language change and code breaks

[Erik Max Francis]

Paul Prescod wrote:

> The Ruby convention is aMessage which is really more clear. i.e.
> "message" could be of type string or of type Unicode or anything. I'm
> sure I've got code on my computer where message was of any of these
> types.

Which is a convention that always seemed a little strange to me (though
not repugnant) -- what really does that indefinite article give you? 
Might as well just write `message'.

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