From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Word usage Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2010 13:52:42 -0500 Message-ID: References: <8739qlokab.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <0DD2CA23246747E0A66AA3DDBD4003E1@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1290970378 2280 80.91.229.12 (28 Nov 2010 18:52:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2010 18:52:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 'David Kastrup' , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 28 19:52:52 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PMmMl-0003AP-FE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Nov 2010 19:52:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43812 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PMmMl-000660-2r for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Nov 2010 13:52:51 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=56550 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PMmMg-00065r-Ce for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Nov 2010 13:52:47 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PMmMe-0000ky-Mu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Nov 2010 13:52:46 -0500 Original-Received: from chene.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.20]:38443) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PMmMe-0000kf-He; Sun, 28 Nov 2010 13:52:44 -0500 Original-Received: from pastel.home (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by chene.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id oASIqgob026365; Sun, 28 Nov 2010 13:52:43 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 1D547A85F1; Sun, 28 Nov 2010 13:52:42 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <0DD2CA23246747E0A66AA3DDBD4003E1@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Sun, 28 Nov 2010 08:36:31 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV3693=0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:133207 Archived-At: > And Emacs doc should definitely use the former, not the latter. > We should not suppose that Emacs users are familiar with math notation > beyond the most basic (e.g. arithmetic or algebra). There is no > reason to expect general users to be familiar with interval notation. color.el is clearly not intended for general users, so the [0,1] notation seems adequate for that context. Stefan