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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: bob@rattlesnake.com
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: filesets
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 05:00:10 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1Ijt8r-0008Ou-WF@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1IjaLY-002KHlC@rattlesnake.com> (bob@rattlesnake.com)

    I know that speaking of `the list of marked files' is longer than
    speaking of `filesets'.  That is bad.  However, the word `list' has
    specific meaning in Lisp.  It is good to express it.

At the user level, a fileset is a collection of files,
collection in an abstract sense, not a Lisp object.
To speak of a "list of files" would put in a false trail.

I am not sure how bad this confusion would be in practice.
Maybe it is acceptable.

"Set of files" would be more like it; it's the same concept as
"fileset", but by swapping the words around we would avoid the
implication that it is the same as the "fileset" discussed in
another section.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-10-22  9:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-21  7:26 filesets Richard Stallman
2007-10-21 12:56 ` filesets Robert J. Chassell
2007-10-21 13:33   ` filesets Miles Bader
2007-10-21 14:01     ` filesets Stefan Monnier
2007-10-21 16:15     ` filesets Robert J. Chassell
2007-10-21 23:46       ` filesets Miles Bader
2007-10-22  9:00   ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2007-10-22 12:15     ` filesets Robert J. Chassell
2007-10-22  5:59 ` filesets Paul Michael Reilly
     [not found] <20071021192054.AD7BE7393E@grelber.thyrsus.com>
2007-10-22 13:36 ` Emacs-devel Digest, Vol 44, Issue 176 Eric S. Raymond
2007-10-22 14:45   ` Miles Bader
2007-10-22 19:01     ` Eric S. Raymond
2007-10-22 21:52       ` filesets Robert J. Chassell

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