On 20/12/2011 07:38, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
On 2011-12-20 01:52, Alix Pexton wrote:
I recently started abbreviating Serialization as s11n (Es-Eleven-En) in
the same vain as i18n for Internationalization and l10n for
Localization. Its not my invention, its in use in C/C++ libs and
probably other languages too. I think std.s11n; world be an acceptable
module name.
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I've never heard that abbreviation.
I got fed up of typing it "the long way" and started using the same
abbreviation technique as for i18n (ie
firstLetter-#omittedLetters-lastLetter) googled the result and found out
I was not the first to have the same idea. I've no more etymological
references than that but I never claimed it was common or well known ^^
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