Pure functions in D

[Ary Borenszweig]

Yigal Chripun wrote:
> 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_ ... "

I find it most interesting that four versions of "you" exist in hebrew, 
that are all combinations of "male/female" and "singular/plural".