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Re:Is the C++ preprocessor still needed? by gjm11 on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @06:40AM (#14307212)
I'm a native anglophone living in the UK. I abbreviate "something" as "sthg" sometimes. I wouldn't do it in a function/variable/method/class/... name, but then I don't think I'd use "something" as part of such a name in the first place in anything I wasn't very confident would only ever be throwaway code.
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Re:Is the C++ preprocessor still needed? by jordigh on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @07:19AM (#14307348)
Given the timestamps of the two English respondents in favour of "sth", I am tempted to amend my hypothesis to say it's a European thing, and more predominant in continental Europe.
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