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Re:Agent Skill to Force Docs in ASD-STE100 Simplified Techni... by aesthesia on Friday July 31, 2026 @01:24AM (#49119304)
Ah, I see, taking "to test A" as an infinitive. But it would be strange to say test B is an alternative without saying what it's an alternative to. The other reading still seems quite unlikely.
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Re:Agent Skill to Force Docs in ASD-STE100 Simplified Techni... by dymk on Friday July 31, 2026 @02:15AM (#49119607)
The point of STE100 is to avoid ambiguity like this, though.
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Re:Agent Skill to Force Docs in ASD-STE100 Simplified Techni... by thomascountz on Friday July 31, 2026 @02:52AM (#49119838)
The point of STE is to support technical writers who have knowledge of the matter and a style guide. In other words, STE will not make something unambiguous simply by replacing words. The example sentence is just to illustrate a grammar rule: "test" as a verb vs a noun. That is all. You should not assume an STE rule will disambiguate a single sentence pulled out of context.
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