I've written a new blog post highlighting hidden treasure found in the D standard library. I love finding this stuff so i've shared my latest discoveries hoping to ignite some curiosity out there.

I've put it on reddit so vote up! :)

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2etyz1/hidden_treasure_in_the_d_standard_library/

Direct link:
http://nomad.so/2014/08/hidden-treasure-in-the-d-standard-library/

On Thursday, 28 August 2014 at 16:06:11 UTC, Gary Willoughby wrote:
> Direct link:
> http://nomad.so/2014/08/hidden-treasure-in-the-d-standard-library/

What do you have against capitalizing 'I' ?
It's annoying / distracting to read text filled with uncapitalised 'I's.

On 8/28/14, 9:06 AM, Gary Willoughby wrote:
> Direct link:
> http://nomad.so/2014/08/hidden-treasure-in-the-d-standard-library/

Post is on hackernews' front page as well. Congratulations! -- Andrei

On Thursday, 28 August 2014 at 20:41:21 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 8/28/14, 9:06 AM, Gary Willoughby wrote:
>> Direct link:
>> http://nomad.so/2014/08/hidden-treasure-in-the-d-standard-library/
>
> Post is on hackernews' front page as well. Congratulations! -- Andrei

Cool! :)

On Thu, 28 Aug 2014 16:18:42 +0000
safety0ff via Digitalmars-d-announce
<digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote:

> What do you have against capitalizing 'I' ?
don't even noticed that until your post. but maybe that is 'cause i'm not using capitals at all... ;-)

On Friday, 29 August 2014 at 02:11:01 UTC, ketmar via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Aug 2014 16:18:42 +0000
> safety0ff via Digitalmars-d-announce
> <digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote:
>
>> What do you have against capitalizing 'I' ?
> don't even noticed that until your post. but maybe that is 'cause i'm
> not using capitals at all... ;-)

It annoyed me as well. If you're writing in a language, try to appear literate. I could live with misspelt "superfragilisticexpialidocious" or even a your/you're mixed by a native speaker, but this rule is very simple and has no exceptions. In fact, you could just do sed -r "s/(^|[^[:alnum:]])i($|[^[:alnum:]])/\1I\2/g" to have it fixed. How difficult is that?

On Friday, 29 August 2014 at 14:17:55 UTC, krzaq wrote:
> On Friday, 29 August 2014 at 02:11:01 UTC, ketmar via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
>> On Thu, 28 Aug 2014 16:18:42 +0000
>> safety0ff via Digitalmars-d-announce
>> <digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote:
>>
>>> What do you have against capitalizing 'I' ?
>> don't even noticed that until your post. but maybe that is 'cause i'm
>> not using capitals at all... ;-)
>
> It annoyed me as well. If you're writing in a language, try to appear literate. I could live with misspelt "superfragilisticexpialidocious" or even a your/you're mixed by a native speaker, but this rule is very simple and has no exceptions. In fact, you could just do sed -r "s/(^|[^[:alnum:]])i($|[^[:alnum:]])/\1I\2/g" to have it fixed. How difficult is that?

I have been inadvertently too harsh. The lack of capitalized "I" is very annoying, but at the same time, I read the whole post and would like to thank the author for it.

On Fri, 29 Aug 2014 14:17:53 +0000
krzaq via Digitalmars-d-announce <digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com>
wrote:

> If you're writing in a language, try to appear literate.
but what if i can't, for example? i can read (and understand without dictionary, and with jokes too) books of Pratchett, Carrol, Adams, even Tolkien with his "ye olde English", but i absolutely can't build correct English sentence by myself.

On Friday, 29 August 2014 at 16:13:33 UTC, ketmar via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Aug 2014 14:17:53 +0000
> krzaq via Digitalmars-d-announce <digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com>
> wrote:
>
>> If you're writing in a language, try to appear literate.
> but what if i can't, for example? i can read (and understand without
> dictionary, and with jokes too) books of Pratchett, Carrol, Adams, even
> Tolkien with his "ye olde English", but i absolutely can't build correct
> English sentence by myself.

The fact that you obviously can (sans capital Is, it seems) aside, I'd say it's a good reason to give yourself a pause before writing something for a wider public. The rules that say "start every sentence with a capital letter" or "every "I" meaning thyself shall be capitalized" are really simple to follow and you learn them very early when learning the language. Negligence to do so is, to me, either extreme laziness or lack of respect to the reader. This isn't twitter or a text message, after all, you had to have put some serious thought into writing such a post. Why not put a minute more to make it presentable?

That being said, I'm sorry for my poor choice of words, I did not mean them to be as aggressive as they are.