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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
Cc: Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk>,
	19208@debbugs.gnu.org, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Subject: bug#19208: replace-match unhelpful error message
Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2019 13:47:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h86xb1aj.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sgqhssum.fsf@gmail.com> (Noam Postavsky's message of "Sat, 03 Aug 2019 19:59:45 -0400")

Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com> writes:

> People might say things like "your height must be between 120 and 200 cm
> to ride this roller coaster" as opposed to "your height must be more
> than 120 cm and your height must be less than 200 cm".

And they don't say "120 cm must be less than your height, which must also
be less than 200 cm".  :-)

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no





  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-08-04 11:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-28 17:00 bug#19208: replace-match unhelpful error message Phillip Lord
2019-08-03 14:01 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-08-03 20:22 ` Paul Eggert
2019-08-03 20:31   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-08-03 20:50     ` Paul Eggert
2019-08-04  9:09       ` Andreas Schwab
2019-08-03 23:59     ` Noam Postavsky
2019-08-04  9:02       ` Andreas Schwab
2019-08-04 14:12         ` Noam Postavsky
2019-08-04 15:13           ` Andreas Schwab
2019-08-04 17:41             ` Paul Eggert
2019-08-04 18:14               ` Andreas Schwab
2019-08-05  2:25           ` Richard Stallman
2019-08-04 11:47       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2019-08-04  9:18   ` Andreas Schwab

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