On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 06:38:25PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 06:40:47PM +0200, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von > Bidder wrote: > > On Thursday 05 June 2003 16:52, Masahito Omote wrote: > > > IO::Socket::INET6" provides an object interface to > > > creating and using sockets in the AF_INET6 domain. It > > > > grammar: ... to create and use ... > I'm not sure I agree. The -ing words are known as gerunds, which > function as nouns, and in English grammar they're perfectly valid > objects of prepositions. Think of it as shorthand for "to the process of > creating and using sockets" if you like. As long as the intended meaning is that it's an interface *to* creating sockets, as opposed to the more common usage, an interface *for* creating sockets. Given the writer's native language contains neither gerunds nor prepositions, it's probably a safe assumption that the latter meaning is the intended one. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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