From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>
Subject: Re: typo in frame.el
Date: 09 Apr 2004 23:11:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <x5u0zshn67.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <FDELKNEBLPKKDCEBEJCBGEFMCDAA.drew.adams@oracle.com>
"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> How about we use "<=>", conventionally, in doc strings, but we also
> explain this convention in the Emacs manual, for those who have
> never seen it? If we adopt such a convention, then we should perhaps
> also conventionally use "=>" for "implies" ("only if") and "<=" for
> "if".
I object. Really. This would carry the message that Emacs is
intended for mathematicians and/or scientists as main audience. Apart
from which those symbols are just ASCII art representations from what
they are supposed to be.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-09 21:11 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 [this message]
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
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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