Next in Review Queue (12/18/2011)? std.serialize/orange?

Alix Pexton alix.DOT.pexton at gmail.DOT.com
Tue Dec 20 02:10:42 PST 2011


On 20/12/2011 07:38, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2011-12-20 01:52, Alix Pexton wrote:
>
>> I recently started abbreviating Serialization as s11n (Es-Eleven-En) in
>> the same vain as i18n for Internationalization and l10n for
>> Localization. Its not my invention, its in use in C/C++ libs and
>> probably other languages too. I think std.s11n; world be an acceptable
>> module name.
>>
>> A...
>
> I've never heard that abbreviation.
>

I got fed up of typing it "the long way" and started using the same 
abbreviation technique as for i18n (ie 
firstLetter-#omittedLetters-lastLetter) googled the result and found out 
I was not the first to have the same idea. I've no more etymological 
references than that but I never claimed it was common or well known ^^

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