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English native, and I parsed it the same way. The OG comment to me reads as if "go.mod never would have existed", not "go.mod didn't exist at this point in time
by dpcx 4y ago
English native, and I parsed it the same way. The OG comment to me reads as if "go.mod never would have existed", not "go.mod didn't exist at this point in time."
- Ensorceled 4y agoExactly, the comma is what does it, it separates the sentence into three fragments and then the 'and' joins segments two and three. If the comma had instead been the word "when", as suggested, this would parse the other way. It still would have been a bit awkward but would make sense.
- morelisp 4y agoIronically I have stopped using the word "when" in constructions like this because it confuses non-native English (esp. German) speakers who read it in the conditional rather than temporal sense.