Thursday, 22 October 2015

meaning - Prepositions: "upon" vs. "after"

After means just that: at any time after the event. Using after would mean that once the new dataset had been created, the conditions are right for an account to be activated.



Upon indicates a simultaneous operation, "at the time of". See ODO sense 8 (upon redirects to on):




8 indicating the day or part of a day during which an event takes place:



  reported on September 26
  on a very hot evening in July



  • at the time of:
        she was booed on arriving home



The quoted sentence means




Consider the possibility of activating accounts automatically at the time of a new dataset creation.


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