Pure functions in D

[Jarrett Billingsley]

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 3:25 PM, BCS <ao at pathlink.com> wrote:
> Reply to Ary,
>
>> 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".
>>
>
> I wonder if any language have the full tensor of pronouns?
>
> 1st/2nd/3rd person X singular/plural X male/female/mixed/neutral
>
> If you don't omit any as impossible that would be 24 words. That wold be a
> mouth full, including duplicates (him/her vs. he/she, we vs. us) I count 9
> in English (add on me, you and them).

You forgot inclusive vs. exclusive 3rd person plural ;)  (that is, "me
and other people but not you" versus "me, you, and possible other
people")