Pure functions in D

[Christopher Wright]

Sean Kelly wrote:
> Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 09:58:13AM -0400, bearophile wrote:
>>> Just a little note: those "he" refer to a male programmer. The D 
>>> language has a small community, so each person is precious, so it's 
>>> better to not show sexual discrimination, and try to use a more 
>>> sexual neutral language in public articles/documents.
>>
>> "He" is technically proper English. When the gender is not known or 
>> doesn't
>> matter, you use the male pronouns.
> 
> Or the female pronouns.  Common practice these days is to pick a gender 
> for a particular section, but it's even accepted to switch genders in 
> different sections so long as doing so isn't confusing to the reader.
> 
> 
> Sean

It's also common, and has been for a few centuries, to use "they" in 
these situations. There was a prescriptivist movement not too long ago 
trying to deprecate that use of "they", but it hasn't been terribly 
successful.