Pure functions in D

[Jarrett Billingsley]

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 4:48 PM, Jarrett Billingsley
<jarrett.billingsley at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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")
>

I of course meant *1st* person plural!