Thursday, July 5, 2018

word choice - "If it was" or "if it were"?








Should I say "If I were [something]" or "If I was [something]?"



This came up because I am writing a comment above a function in some code. Here's the comment, basically:



// Shuts down everything
// Will stop the process if it was running
function Shutdown()



So should that say "if it was running" or "if it were running?"



Also, why?

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