From: William Skaggs weskaggs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx I think I need to follow up on my last message, because it was read incorrectly by some people. I should say that the English skills of most of the people who contribute to GIMP are so strong that I normally don't worry about how I say things, but in this case I assumed too much. The phrase in question is, "that's some of the worst code in all of GIMP to mess around with", which was taken by some readers to mean "that's some of the worst code in GIMP". To a native English speaker, it certainly does not mean that. It means, approximately, "it is dangerous to make changes to that code". The word "worst" applies to "mess around with", not to "code". This sort of construction is actually pretty common. If I say, "he's a bad man to annoy", it doesn't mean that he is a bad man---"bad" applies to "annoy", not to "man". I hope this makes my meaning more clear. Whether it is, in fact, dangerous to make changes to the paint core code is, of course, a different question, but I don't think it is insulting to suggest this. Some of the best code in GIMP is very carefully written to deal with complicated situations, and very dangerous to change, in other words, "bad to mess around with". -- Bill
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