Lists/Maps/Sets (Was Re: The story of E, part 2 (fwd))

[Mark S. Miller]

At 12:24 AM 10/12/98 -0700, Ka-Ping Yee wrote:
>....  Don't kill yourself over this issue! :) :)
>
>Then again, "a unit", "a uniform", "an underling"... argh!  Forget it!
>
>*sigh*.  I hate English.
>...
>i can't remember when (if ever) i last wanted to choose between "a" and
>"an"... 


At 06:21 PM 10/14/98 -0700, Douglas Crockford wrote:
>...
>Please consider Internationalization. Any function which is exclusively an
>English-language function does not belong in String. Either put it in an
>English processing class, or make it more general. ...
>
>Be aware that there are rows of stacks of crates of cans of worms lurking
>here. (Number, gender, declination, irregular forms, etc.)


As Python's namesake Monty might say, "RUN AWAY!".  "aan" is hereby
withdrawn from the proposed E standard libraries (and will be removed from
the implementation).