eliminate junk from std.string?

Justin Johansson noreply at jj.com
Tue Jan 11 10:51:45 PST 2011


On 12/01/11 05:07, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "Steven Schveighoffer"<schveiguy at yahoo.com>  wrote in message
> news:op.vo5kspmfeav7ka at steve-laptop...
>> On Tue, 11 Jan 2011 11:39:11 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu
>> <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org>  wrote:
>>
>>> On 1/11/11 6:29 AM, Ary Borenszweig wrote:
>>>> Hi Andrei,
>>>>
>>>> It looks nice. Just a small comment: in many of your comments you use
>>>> words that
>>>> not all of us might now. For instance: "sans". I happen to know it
>>>> because I
>>>> studied French, but otherwise I wouldn't know that. I just showed that
>>>> phrase to a
>>>> colleague here in Argentina and he didn't understand it. He thought it
>>>> maybe meant
>>>> "since". Maybe "sans" and "in lieu" are memes there in the USA, but not
>>>> everywhere. So please, stick with English. :-)
>>>
>>> Okay. I think "sans" is Walter's...
>>
>> sans is in the english dictionary:
>>
>> http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sans
>>
>> According to that reference, Shakespeare used it :)  Don't think you can
>> get more English than that...
>>
>
> Thoust words are true.

As an aside you might find some amusement in "The Shakespeare 
Programming Language"

http://shakespearelang.sourceforge.net/report/shakespeare/


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