I've started blog a little more about D.

Peter Lundgren peter at peterlundgren.com
Sun Jul 21 07:18:49 PDT 2013


On Sunday, 21 July 2013 at 13:47:06 UTC, Gary Willoughby wrote:
> On Sunday, 21 July 2013 at 11:31:09 UTC, Peter Alexander wrote:
>> Content looks great, but I was continually distracted by the 
>> consistent use of lowercase i as a pronoun. Please fix this. 
>> It would be a real shame for such a long and otherwise 
>> excellent article to be rendered amateurish by such a trivial 
>> error.
>>
>> Just in case English isn't your first language: the pronoun 
>> "I" is always uppercase, including when used with 
>> contractions, e.g. I'm, I've, I'll etc.
>
> Thanks for the kind words about the article.
>
> He he, this is a bit of concious rebellion on my part. English 
> is my first language but i don't agree that 'i' should be 
> capitalized mid-sentence. I am too humble to consider a 
> mid-sentence 'i'  important enough.
>
> Interesting article regarding 'i':
> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/magazine/03wwln-guestsafire-t.html

It doesn't matter why. That's how it's done in English. You don't 
get to change the capitalization of keywords in D. Same thing 
here.


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