Better string mixins

[bauss]

On Friday, 28 December 2018 at 14:13:04 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
> On Friday, 28 December 2018 at 12:09:30 UTC, Walter Bright 
> wrote:
>> On 12/27/2018 9:55 PM, Michelle Long wrote:
>>> This avoids having to do shit like
>>
>> Please don't use such words on the forums. We expect 
>> professional demeanor.
>
> I'm sure you're bored of hearing this, but workplaces aren't 
> very uniform in expected demeanor across different countries, 
> industries, companies and jobs. Playing on stereotypes: what 
> might be normal behaviour for a sysadmin at an Australian games 
> company would likely be horrifically bad behaviour for a 
> user-facing tech support role in a German accounting software 
> company. Maybe I'm wrong, but I think programmers swearing 
> regularly is pretty normal at work in a lot of places.
>
> Maybe there is another description of what you intend that 
> would be more universal.
>
> (To be clear, I think I understand what you mean by 
> "professional demeanor", but I've been here a while and 
> inferred from observation what you do and don't put up with, 
> plus I guess a bit based on similarities between UK and USA 
> culture)

I kinda agree with this.

At my company we curse a lot and not because we aren't 
professional, that's just our culture.

We're more like friends/family than just colleagues.

I do agree with Walter too that you should refrain from using 
such phrases if possible.