Trusted Manifesto

[Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d]

On Mon, 2015-02-09 at 13:12 -0500, Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On 2/9/15 12:57 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> > On 2/9/15 7:48 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> > > auto result = (() @trusted => cast(immutable)a)();
> > 
> > I'm okay with this as with most of Steve's points. But 
> > "genericness" is not a word :o). -- Andrei
> 
> Merriam Webster says otherwise ;)
> 
> http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/generic
> 

But that dictionary doesn't matter, the OED is the one true keeper of 
the English language.

From what I can see genericity is not officially an English word, even 
though OUP have published a book with this "word" as title: 
http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199691807.do

Genericness is definitely listed, and so is a valid word.

On the other hand, terms of art (aka jargon) are allowed, and computer 
science has determined that genericity is a valid word. As long as it 
is used in a computer science, software context.

:-)

-- 
Russel.
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