From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Word usage
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2010 10:43:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8739qlokab.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In color.el, the doc strings frequently say something like
"must be between [0,1]."
That is bad English. Either you write "must be between 0 and 1
inclusively." (which is less techno-babble), or you write "must be in
[0,1]". But a value can't be "between" an interval. That is
nonsensical.
--
David Kastrup
next reply other threads:[~2010-11-28 9:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-28 9:43 David Kastrup [this message]
2010-11-28 16:36 ` Word usage Drew Adams
2010-11-28 18:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-11-28 19:15 ` Drew Adams
2010-12-10 19:08 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-12-10 20:24 ` Drew Adams
2010-12-10 20:57 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-12-10 21:40 ` Drew Adams
2010-12-10 21:56 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-11-29 9:26 ` Julien Danjou
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