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From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: color.el
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 10:10:49 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8762sfv7c6.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sjvjj2mz.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (Chong Yidong's message of "Sat, 19 Feb 2011 13:33:08 -0500")

Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> writes:
> 2. Returning HUE in [0,1], rather than radians, by default.
>
>    If we do this, I'd rather not add a separate *-radians function; we
>    should just decide on whether Emacs should represent hue as [0,1], as
>    radians, or as [0,360], and use that everywhere.
>
>    For what it's worth, the Gimp, the Java color library, and the
>    Eclipse API all use [0,360].  Maybe we should do follow suit.  Any
>    objections?

Radians seem cleaner; an argument range of 0-360 only seems useful if an
interface is primarily user-level (e.g. a spec in a web page or something).

-miles

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-02-20  1:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-17  0:23 color.el Drew Adams
2011-02-19 18:33 ` color.el Chong Yidong
2011-02-20  0:17   ` color.el Drew Adams
2011-02-20  1:10   ` Miles Bader [this message]
2011-02-20  3:19     ` color.el Drew Adams
2011-02-20  4:07       ` color.el Miles Bader
2011-02-20 15:44         ` color.el Drew Adams
2011-02-21 17:30         ` color.el Chong Yidong

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