Write/Writeln, etc

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Fri, 08 May 2009 08:28:28 -0400, Georg Wrede <georg.wrede at iki.fi> wrote:

> Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>> On Thu, 07 May 2009 16:02:52 -0400, Jarrett Billingsley  
>> <jarrett.billingsley at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 1:38 PM, bearophile <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com>  
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> The following doesn't work, the pragma isn't seen as an instruction,  
>>>> I guess this is normal, but I don't like it much:
>>>>
>>>> static if (true)
>>>>    pragma(msg, "true");
>>>> else
>>>>    pragma(msg, "false");
>>>
>>> Funny, I just ran into that today too.  If you add braces, for some
>>> reason it works.
>>>
>>>> D2 programs need more and more compile-time printing, and:
>>>> pragma(msg, ToString(...) ~ ...);
>>>> isn't much nice.
>>>
>>> Once again: 'much' and 'too much' can never.
>>>
>>> modify.
>>>
>>> adjectives.
>>>
>>> They are not adverbs.
>>  Much.
>>  can be.
>>  an adverb.
>>  http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/much%5B2%5D
>>  Besides, who really cares if people use incorrect grammar?  We aren't  
>> turning in essay papers here.
>>  Bearophile, what you meant to say was "isn't much nicer".
>
> Or "isn't very nice".
>
> (At least, if looking at bearophile's regular use of that phrase. Could  
> it be that "very" and "much" are the same word in Italian?)
>
> Not that I care, English isn't my first language, either. ;-)

could be, I didn't read the whole context.

If you were comparing something to something else, then "isn't much nicer"  
makes sense, but if you are not comparing two things, then "isn't very  
nice" makes more sense.

"isn't much nice" seems like it should make sense from a purely  
grammatical point of view, but it sounds weird to me :)  I don't know why  
it's bad, but it is.

-Steve