From: Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnuvola.org>
To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
Cc: Mike Mattie <codermattie@gmail.com>,
emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: pp-to-string heisenberg bug
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 22:31:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878wzw578w.fsf@ambire.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87myocxplg.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (Stephen J. Turnbull's message of "Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:07:23 +0900")
() "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
() Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:07:23 +0900
That's unfortunate, because the technical term is "elision",
and the semantics of elision is IMO much closer to truncation
than to abbreviation. An abbreviation is an incomplete copy
conveying the full meaning of the original, while an elision is
an incomplete copy lacking details considered unimportant by
the editor.
Thus, 'foo is an abbreviation of (quote foo) because the
semantics are exactly the same by convention (enforced by
reader macro), while (foo ...) is an elision of (foo bar baz
quux) because it doesn't have the same semantics.
Yeah, "elision" is nicer. Actually, "truncation" strikes my fancy,
too, after looking at the tree like Castenada would. Words are such
traitors, yet spies we cannot due w/o.
thi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-02 20:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-31 22:56 pp-to-string heisenberg bug Mike Mattie
2008-04-01 7:13 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2008-04-02 15:07 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-04-02 20:31 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen [this message]
2008-04-01 8:29 ` Andreas Schwab
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