Re: [External] : Re: How to make M-x TAB not work on (interactive) declaration?

["tomas@tuxteam.de" <tomas@tuxteam.de>]

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On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 10:20:47PM +0000, Drew Adams wrote:

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> > Arguably, "zero or more" might be clearer here [...]

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> 1. I said "More precisely: zero or more" in my
> second reply to this thread:

I was mulling over the manual's text, not over yours.

>   Not to belabor this... but perhaps you're missing
>   understanding _zero as a number_, in "number of
>   arguments".  More precisely: zero or more args.

I don't know who "you" is in this context: if you
meant "me" -- I do consider zero as a number, even
as a natural number (many influences conspirated
towards that). My point rather is:

 - "number" is pretty vague, and in this context
   often used sloppily [1] as "natural number",
   sometimes also for "whole number". There are
   many other "numbers"

 - not everyone considers zero as a natural number
   (even mathematicians "disagree" on that: it
   seems to vary from faculty to faculty)

 - you need some amount of sloppiness to make a
   documentation even viable.

Cheers
-- 
t

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