Blog post on hidden treasure in the D standard library.

krzaq via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Fri Aug 29 08:06:02 PDT 2014


On Friday, 29 August 2014 at 14:17:55 UTC, krzaq wrote:
> On Friday, 29 August 2014 at 02:11:01 UTC, ketmar via 
> Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
>> On Thu, 28 Aug 2014 16:18:42 +0000
>> safety0ff via Digitalmars-d-announce
>> <digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com> wrote:
>>
>>> What do you have against capitalizing 'I' ?
>> don't even noticed that until your post. but maybe that is 
>> 'cause i'm
>> not using capitals at all... ;-)
>
> It annoyed me as well. If you're writing in a language, try to 
> appear literate. I could live with misspelt 
> "superfragilisticexpialidocious" or even a your/you're mixed by 
> a native speaker, but this rule is very simple and has no 
> exceptions. In fact, you could just do sed -r 
> "s/(^|[^[:alnum:]])i($|[^[:alnum:]])/\1I\2/g" to have it fixed. 
> How difficult is that?

I have been inadvertently too harsh. The lack of capitalized "I" 
is very annoying, but at the same time, I read the whole post and 
would like to thank the author for it.


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