Pure functions in D

[Sean Kelly]

Christopher Wright wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 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.

True enough.  And I do use "they" from time to time, but I think it 
tends to be somewhat off-putting if used extensively.


Sean