Teaching D at a Russian University

[Mike Parker]

On Sunday, 20 February 2022 at 09:58:39 UTC, Ogi wrote:
> On Sunday, 20 February 2022 at 03:23:03 UTC, Walter Bright 
> wrote:
>>
>> So do I. I enjoy the unusual phrasings some ESL people use.
>
> Translator here. Actually, that was our collective effort 
> towards weird wording. The original translation I sent to Mike 
> for editing stated “*for once* header files are not required”—I 
> meant *for instance* but confused is with *for once*. Mike, 
> instead of correcting it into *for example* or *for instance*, 
> simply dropped *once*. Then I missed it when reviewing his 
> edits.

Haha. I interpreted "for once" to mean "on this occasion", which 
seemed really out of context. "for" worked as a more general 
substitute for it. "for example" never crossed my mind. I'll 
change it.