Luke Palmer writes: > Hi Jos, > > Jos Visser writes: > > Mightn't it be (is this English by the way? :-) a good idea to use > > LANGUAGES.STATUS also for maintaining track of parrot-generating > > compilers that are not in the main tree? > > Yeah, that's English. "Mightn't" is an archaic word which is sometimes > fun to use. Saying "it be" is using the subjunctive mood in "to be", > also seldom used, but you use it correctly here. > > I just learned about the English subjunctive a little while ago; it has > greatly improved my understanding of those wierd constructs involving > "might" and "lest".
There it goes again! That was *supposed* to be off-list! Well, now the entirety of the internals list can learn about English grammar. Hoo-ray. [> ]Luke > > If people agree that it's a good idea I would like to submit the > > following three liner: > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > OpenComal Compiler emiting parrot being added to interpreter > > Status: Under development; nowhere near anything yet > > URL: http://www.josvisser.nl/opencomal > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > ++Jos.nl > > > > -- > > ek is so lug jy vlieg deur my > > sonder jou is ek sonder patroon > > "Breyten Breytenbach"
