[OT] Re: Who on earth knows how???...

[Kirk McDonald]

renoX wrote:
> Kirk McDonald a écrit :
>> Hasan Aljudy wrote:
>>>
>>> Charlie wrote:
>>>> I think you can also use templates, ala 
>>>> http://www.dsource.org/projects/tutorials/wiki/MultipleInheritanceWithTemplateBoltInsExample 
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Completely off-topic, sorry, but I've always wondered what does "ala" 
>>> mean?!!!
>>>
>>
>> The Internet is your friend:
>>
>> http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/a_la
>>
>> a la, less commonly à la
>>
>>    1. In the style or manner of.
> 
> What the wiktionary doesn't tell is that this comes originally from 
> French language hence the accent on the a: "à la".
> 
> renoX

Sure it does, right under "etymology." See also:

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%C3%A0_la

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Kirk McDonald
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