Pure functions in D

[Yigal Chripun]

Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> "Yigal Chripun" wrote
>> Ary Borenszweig wrote:
>>> 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".
>> Isn't it like this in most languages?
>> at least I know that Russian has both singular and plural. actually I
>> think I read once that English had the same distinction as well but it
>> got deprecated or something.
> 
> Yes, in English version 2.023, gender specific 'you' was deprecated.  If you 
> wish to have a gender specific 'you', use enum:
> 
> enum : you {
>   she_you,
>   he_you
> }
> 
> -Steve 
> 
> 
LOL!
that's a good one.

but seriously, here's a Wikipedia quote for what I meant:

"In standard English, you is both singular and plural; it always takes a
verb form that originally marked the word as plural, such as you are.
This was not always so. Early Modern English distinguished between the
plural you and the singular thou. This distinction was lost in modern
English due to the importation from France of a Romance linguistic
feature which is commonly called the T-V distinction."

there's also the "ye" form.