Re: Bug#196226: ITP: libio-socket-inet6-perl -- Object interface for AF_INET6 domain sockets
Hi, 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.
IMHO: You can either write "provides an object interface to create ...",
or "... an interface for creating ...".
Disclaimer: I'm not a native English speaker, but that hasn't stopped me
before. ;-)
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