DIP66 - Multiple alias this

John Colvin via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri Oct 24 13:52:20 PDT 2014


On Friday, 24 October 2014 at 13:17:28 UTC, Meta wrote:
> 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.

A full stop (a.k.a. period in some countries) for abbreviation 
does not imply that the following word must be capitalised. 
Sentences must start with a capital.


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