From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: Word usage Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 13:40:01 -0800 Message-ID: <2218748F1D64454BA6418E7D34FBF1F3@us.oracle.com> References: <8739qlokab.fsf@lola.goethe.zz><0DD2CA23246747E0A66AA3DDBD4003E1@us.oracle.com><2D3825EF7031471E922841F0A32E5A22@us.oracle.com><87vd3130p0.fsf@lifelogs.com><240BCD38C75044C682769CEE41142E4D@us.oracle.com> <87oc8tqrb6.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1292017235 25069 80.91.229.12 (10 Dec 2010 21:40:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 21:40:35 +0000 (UTC) To: "'Ted Zlatanov'" , Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 10 22:40:31 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 1PRAhY-0001g2-R0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 22:40:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46371 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PRAhY-0003gE-7n for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:40:28 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=52435 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PRAhO-0003ed-7o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:40:19 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PRAhM-00068x-R8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:40:17 -0500 Original-Received: from rcsinet10.oracle.com ([148.87.113.121]:25749) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PRAhM-00068h-KZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:40:16 -0500 Original-Received: from rcsinet15.oracle.com (rcsinet15.oracle.com [148.87.113.117]) by rcsinet10.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.2) with ESMTP id oBALeEqp028728 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Fri, 10 Dec 2010 21:40:15 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt354.oracle.com (acsmt354.oracle.com [141.146.40.154]) by rcsinet15.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.1) with ESMTP id oBALeDn9015329; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 21:40:13 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt009.oracle.com by acsmt353.oracle.com with ESMTP id 844820631292017201; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 13:40:01 -0800 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/10.159.225.165) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 13:40:01 -0800 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <87oc8tqrb6.fsf@lifelogs.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5994 Thread-Index: AcuYrPJ4mwwmKvF0SBmStYOmGvXn3QABFr0A 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:133592 Archived-At: > 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?