From: Alessandro Bertulli <alessandro.bertulli96@gmail.com>
To: Akib Azmain Turja <akib@disroot.org>
Cc: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Morally equivalent
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2022 13:47:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871qr6ek2t.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pmer9hrn.fsf@disroot.org>
> This should be:
>
> This is almost equivalent to (setf PLACE (cons NEWELT PLACE)),
> except that PLACE is evaluated only once (after NEWELT).
>
> Anyway, I enjoy occasionally finding things like "morally equivalent" in
> Emacs.
I agree. I think this kind of language actually beneficial, when it
helps in conveying the "intuition" behind a concept, using analogies
(this of course is nothing new, you almost certainly did this too if you
ever had to explain something to someone less experienced than you).
If we find this choice of word poor or misleading, that's actually very
good: it means we care for the quality of Emacs. But I would say that a
clarification would be just as good, without giving up the analogy:
"This is morally equvalent to [...], meaning that it is equal in all
practical sense, except that [...]"
(please correct me if I misunderstood something)
As a OCD guy, please let me tell you all: relax! :-)
It's very good to be passionate even about minor things. Not so much if
those become a division.
--
Alessandro Bertulli
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-17 11:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-10-16 2:45 Morally equivalent John Haman
2022-10-16 2:55 ` Eduardo Ochs
2022-10-16 3:39 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-10-16 14:29 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-10-16 14:34 ` Heime
2022-10-16 14:42 ` Dr Rainer Woitok
2022-10-16 15:02 ` Drew Adams
2022-10-16 16:20 ` tomas
2022-10-16 19:27 ` Bob Newell
2022-10-16 19:43 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-10-16 20:24 ` Bob Newell
2022-10-16 19:58 ` Christopher Dimech
2022-10-16 23:10 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-10-16 23:17 ` Christopher Dimech
2022-10-16 23:32 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-10-16 23:47 ` Eduardo Ochs
2022-10-17 1:13 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-10-18 10:44 ` Dr Rainer Woitok
2022-10-17 0:00 ` Christopher Dimech
2022-10-17 0:10 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-10-17 0:32 ` Christopher Dimech
2022-10-17 0:53 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-10-17 1:18 ` Christopher Dimech
2022-10-17 4:52 ` tomas
2022-10-17 5:27 ` Christopher Dimech
2022-10-20 14:08 ` Akib Azmain Turja
2022-10-20 16:24 ` Christopher Dimech
2022-10-20 18:29 ` tomas
2022-10-20 19:54 ` Christopher Dimech
2022-10-17 4:49 ` Akib Azmain Turja
2022-10-17 6:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-17 7:48 ` tomas
2022-10-17 9:15 ` Thibaut Verron
2022-10-17 23:01 ` Rudolf Adamkovič
2022-10-18 1:01 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-10-18 1:07 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-10-18 2:39 ` Po Lu
2022-10-18 3:50 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-10-18 14:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-18 16:50 ` Christopher Dimech
2022-10-18 23:11 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-10-20 14:05 ` Akib Azmain Turja
2022-10-20 17:14 ` Christopher Dimech
2022-10-17 15:42 ` Christopher Dimech
2022-10-17 11:47 ` Alessandro Bertulli [this message]
2022-10-23 10:16 ` Will Mengarini
2022-10-24 14:46 ` Marcin Borkowski
2022-10-24 21:06 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-10-24 21:05 ` Emanuel Berg
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
List information: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=871qr6ek2t.fsf@gmail.com \
--to=alessandro.bertulli96@gmail.com \
--cc=akib@disroot.org \
--cc=help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org \
--cc=michael_heerdegen@web.de \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).