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[Marc Mutz]

On Monday 27 March 2017 09:22:53 Martin Smith wrote:
> vector<point> is an ordered collection of points, but a QVector can contain
> anything; QVector<void*> can even contain unlike things, which is truly a
> tuple. So the problem here is the name QVector. The basic collection
> should be called QTuple or QArray, and QVector should mean QTuple<QPoint>.

And "debt" should be spelled "det". It should. It isn't. You can start writing 
det everywhere now, and maybe in a generation you will have collected enough 
mindshare that the Oxford Dictionary contains it as an alternative spelling. 
Your grandchildren will thank you for a simplified language, but your children 
will fight with the fact that debt is now called det.

Been there, done that. Delphin is now spelled Delfin in German. For - what - 
20 years now? It still looks wrong. Oh, and the public outcry back then. And 
the economic damage caused by having to re-proofread, re-edit and re-print a 
ton of Flipper books...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_orthography_reform_of_1996

Thanks,
Marc

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