Pure functions in D

[Yigal Chripun]

BCS wrote:
> Reply to Victor,
> 
>> I think only stupid American feminists will tread word "he" as
>> "discrimination".
>> I'm sure that Russian girls-programmers just laugh when hear those
>> language perversions for sexual polit-correctness.
>> This is correct for all Russian girls/women, which i know and spoke...
>> Also, for persons speaking English badly (as me) it will be very
>> difficult to use correct USA-specific PC-words.
>>
>> Don't be mad on this shit, i propose!
>>
> 
> I find the gender neutral part funny as well, however once in a while
> being able to explicitly differentiate between gender neutral and either
> gender can be handy: "Officer, I saw him steal the bag,.. Er, it might
> have bean a woman but I'm really don't know"
> 
> 
in my native language (Hebrew) there is no neutral part at all.
everything is either male, female or (rarely) both. That included stuff
like chair, table (both male), shirt (female) etc.
No such problems as you describe occur in practice (in Hebrew) - either
you use the male form (which is the default):
"I saw someone (in the male form) steal the bag" - is understood to be
someone either male or female. this is because when you say "him",
someone, etc, you refer to a "person" which is a male noun. if you want
to specify that it was indeed a man than just say: "I saw a _man_ ... "