Topological sorting of perl modules

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Wed Aug 13 03:22:58 PDT 2014


On Aug 13, 2014, at 3:38 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:

> PS/Off-topic: what's the proper way to talk about MacPorts in English?
> "MacPorts is" or "MacPorts are"? (wxWidgets is / are)

I speak American English in which I've usually heard collective nouns used with singular verbs ("MacPorts is"). But in British English it is more common to use a plural verb ("MacPorts are"). In fact it depends on the context. Some info at http://alt-usage-english.org/groupnames.html



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