DIP66 - Multiple alias this

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Fri Oct 24 06:17:26 PDT 2014


On Friday, 24 October 2014 at 13:05:54 UTC, IgorStepanov wrote:
> On Friday, 24 October 2014 at 06:04:24 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
> wrote:
>> On 10/19/14 2:00 PM, IgorStepanov wrote:
>>> Bump.
>>
>> I've made a few grammar and fluency edits to the DIP, and 
>> collected a few thoughts while doing that. Will get back on 
>> this before too long. -- Andrei
>
> I've seen it. Thanks!
> Waiting for a comments.
> Should I add chapter about method overloading with alias this: 
> it should work (and works) as cross-module overloading. It 
> should imply
> This implies from the DIP but hasn't written explicitly.
>
> OT: Should `et\s?c\.?` be written as "etc" in English?
> I thought that it should be written as "et c.", because "et 
> cetera". Or is it an anachronism?

The convention is to write "etc.", with the period indicating 
that the rest of the word has been omitted. If it appears in the 
middle of a sentence, I don't capitalize the subsequent word as 
it doesn't really make sense, but I'm not sure what the actual 
convention is in that respect.


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