On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 7:47 AM, Robert A. Rosenberg <hal9...@panix.com> wrote:
> At 01:14 -0400 on 06/11/2015, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote about Re: > STCK question: > > >And assuming that Janet is a he. >> >> Or that you accept the gender neutral pronoun "he", which has been >> around for centuries. >> > > I've seen s/he used to cover both genders. > > Well, being computer professionals, despite not being of the UNIX variety, perhaps we use use the regular expression: s?he (the ? means "repeat 0 or 1 times" aka "optional"). Unless we post in the ISPF forum whereupon it becomes r's?sh' to match PDF EDIT's specification of a regular expression. -- Yoda of Borg, we are. Futile, resistance is, yes. Assimilated, you will be. My sister opened a computer store in Hawaii. She sells C shells down by the seashore. If someone tell you that nothing is impossible: Ask him to dribble a football. He's about as useful as a wax frying pan. 10 to the 12th power microphones = 1 Megaphone Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
