From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Ted Zlatanov'" <tzz@lifelogs.com>, <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: Word usage
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 13:40:01 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2218748F1D64454BA6418E7D34FBF1F3@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87oc8tqrb6.fsf@lifelogs.com>
> You're defending a class of people that doesn't exist: smart
> programmers who are bad at math and somehow missed out on
> interval notation, and who now are attempting to use color.el.
> There may be one in the world, I guess...
Such arrogance.
Just add a simple comment describing the syntax, please. E.g.:
;; Parens `(', `)' and brackets `[', `]' indicate intervals.
;; A bracket means the start `[' or end `]' point is included.
;; A paren means it is not included. (Standard interval notation.)
Is that so hard?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-10 21:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-28 9:43 Word usage David Kastrup
2010-11-28 16:36 ` Drew Adams
2010-11-28 18:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-11-28 19:15 ` Drew Adams
2010-12-10 19:08 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-12-10 20:24 ` Drew Adams
2010-12-10 20:57 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-12-10 21:40 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2010-12-10 21:56 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-11-29 9:26 ` Julien Danjou
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