[QUESTION] GO RELOADED error in assignment

[BjornMikael]

I have walked through the 01 edu's "Go-Reloaded" assignment when the following issue crossed my eyes and mind:

"Every instance of a should be turned into an if the next word begins with a vowel (a, e, i, o, u) or a h. (Ex: "There it was. A amazing rock!" -> "There it was. An amazing rock!")."

Now, this task given gives cause for concern because we are being told that "Every instance of a should be turned into an if the next word begins with a vowel (a, e, i, o, u) or a h."

Well, a problematic situation occurs if/when we look closely (for example) into the following examples:

1. Well, I just got into town about a hour ago --> FIX: Well, I just got into town about an hour ago --> NO PROBLEM HERE, fix works 100% as "hour" is pronounced without the "h".

2. Yes, I live on a house upon Hollywood Hills --> FIX: Yes, I live on an house upon Hollywood Hills --> 100% PROBLEM, because "house" is pronounced WITH the "h", not without.

So in effect with these instructions given we would have a flawed text completion/editing/auto-correction in the real world, which is probably not the end result we were looking for. Just my two cents.

[pedrodesu]

Hello @BjornMikael!

We appreciate you taking the time to think about the correctness of the exercise.

Now, one important thing to bear in mind, is that while your reasoning is definitely valid and not every example would be correct under this logic, this hardly matters for the given exercise, as it's beyond its point. The exercise focuses on the user being able to do that parsing and substitution accordingly - whether the context is 100% correct gramatically is somewhat irrelevant for the purpose of the exercise.

With that in mind, I do agree striving for correctness and polishing the exercise is always a good idea. However, I'm not entirely sure on how we could make this section of the exercise gramatically correct without changing its context (checking and replacing based on whether we have a vowel/h at the start).

I'd like to ask you if you have any further ideas on how we can make this more accurate. We're of course open to changing the context/phrashing of that section of the exercise if that means making it more gramatically sound - as long as the logic behind remains equivalent.