Re: GCC 4.0 Freeze

[Branko Äibej <brane at xbc dot nu>]

Zack Weinberg wrote:

> Branko Äibej <brane@xbc.nu> writes:
>
>  
>
> > Zack Weinberg wrote:
> >
> >    
> >
> > > "This compiler does not support all of Fortran 77 yet.  We recommend
> > > distributors continue to provide packages of g77 from GCC 3.4 for
> > > the time being.  When gfortran is considered a complete replacement
> > > for g77 we will announce it."
> > >
> > >
> > >      
> > "We recommend distributors continue..."
> >
> > Oh I say, is it really so hard?
> >    
>
> Are you objecting to the absence of "that" after "recommend"?
Indeed.

>  I don't
> personally find that infelicitous (and find the version with a "that"
> excessively verbose) but I wouldn't be surprised if other dialects of
> English held the opposite perspective.
>  
Well, the sentence seems lopsided to me without the "that". But then, I 
prefer "it's not as weird as all that" to "it's not that weird", at 
least in formal communication. Maybe I'm just weird myself.

> z "prescriptivism considered mandatory or harmful on a case-by-case basis" w
>  
Heh. :)


-- Brane