[x0re4x]

You could always put NOPs into delay slots by default and replace them later with something more useful.

[jawnv6]

no, you could not "always" find something useful to put there later. gross exaggeration

[mrguyorama]

You misunderstood parent. They meant you can always nop the branch delay, and you might find something more useful for it later

[jawnv6]

that may have been what they wanted to write. unfortunately they wrote something wrong and misleading instead. i understood what they wrote perfectly well and the implication therein isn't, somehow, my fault

[mrguyorama]

The "always" qualifier does not apply to anything after the "and". Why do you assume it does? You are being very combative and pedantic so I assume you have a diehard rule for this that you can reference? Like some english grammar handbook?