eliminate junk from std.string?

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Tue, 11 Jan 2011 11:39:11 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu  
<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:

> On 1/11/11 6:29 AM, Ary Borenszweig wrote:
>> Hi Andrei,
>>
>> It looks nice. Just a small comment: in many of your comments you use  
>> words that
>> not all of us might now. For instance: "sans". I happen to know it  
>> because I
>> studied French, but otherwise I wouldn't know that. I just showed that  
>> phrase to a
>> colleague here in Argentina and he didn't understand it. He thought it  
>> maybe meant
>> "since". Maybe "sans" and "in lieu" are memes there in the USA, but not
>> everywhere. So please, stick with English. :-)
>
> Okay. I think "sans" is Walter's...

sans is in the english dictionary:

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sans

According to that reference, Shakespeare used it :)  Don't think you can  
get more English than that...

BTW, it would be impossible to phrase everything so everyone who has their  
specific dialect of English would understand it, I don't think there's  
much sense in worrying about it.

That being said, using 'without' instead of 'sans' is probably fine.

-Steve