From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
Cc: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: typo in frame.el
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 01:54:02 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k70n41cx.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <x5isg8hj6o.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (David Kastrup's message of "10 Apr 2004 00:37:19 +0200")
David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
> "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
>> Hmmm... I suppose so. But two silly counter-arguments, then I'll rest:
>>
>> 1) The unwashed masses seem to have digested ":)" OK...
>
> "Digested"? I'd say they created it. I doubt that hackers need
> explicit warning labels for nonobvious humor.
:-) is nothing more than a symbol to indicate an emotional state of
the sender. And as in RL one can make jokes with a different face,
using smiley makes the same difference as for making jokes with
a smile or with a Good Friday face :-)
> I said that non-matheticians/programmers/logicians use "if" in the
> meaning "iff" more often than otherwise, so they get more than half
> of its meaning.
>
> Anyway, in this case, the doc string is unclear anyway.
>
> It should be
>
> Turn cursor blink mode on if ARG is positive, off otherwise.
Rephrasing it will undoubtedly help to reduce misunderstanding for
non-mathematicians/programmers/logicians, and it even don't have to
fit on one line in the given case, because it's not the first line of
a docstring. But anyhow, it seems that eliminating "iff" is too late,
because "iff" is already too widespread in Emacs source files.
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-10 22:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-09 10:20 typo in frame.el Hiroshi Fujishima
2004-04-09 10:56 ` David Kastrup
2004-04-09 18:58 ` Alex Schroeder
2004-04-09 20:05 ` Drew Adams
2004-04-09 20:22 ` Simon Josefsson
2004-04-09 20:46 ` Drew Adams
2004-04-09 21:11 ` David Kastrup
2004-04-09 21:33 ` Simon Josefsson
2004-04-09 21:57 ` Drew Adams
2004-04-09 22:37 ` David Kastrup
2004-04-09 23:03 ` Drew Adams
2004-04-09 23:17 ` David Kastrup
2004-04-10 22:54 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2004-04-09 22:47 ` Alan Shutko
2004-04-09 23:17 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2004-04-10 1:03 ` Miles Bader
2004-04-11 2:35 ` Richard Stallman
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