Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> I can find "an" there,
> too, as a synonym for "if", but it would be as absurd for me to go
> around substituting the arcane and archaic "an" for "if" in our
> documentation as it is for one to go around substituting the arcane and
> archaic "nul" for "null".

OTOH, it might be fun to add "an" as a synonym in the shell for "if":

	an [ -z "$1" ]
	duly
		echo ${SYNTAX} >&2
	na

--jkl