From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 'David Kastrup' <dak@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Word usage
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2010 13:52:42 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvk4jxwabq.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0DD2CA23246747E0A66AA3DDBD4003E1@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Sun, 28 Nov 2010 08:36:31 -0800")
> And Emacs doc should definitely use the former, not the latter.
> We should not suppose that Emacs users are familiar with math notation
> beyond the most basic (e.g. arithmetic or algebra). There is no
> reason to expect general users to be familiar with interval notation.
color.el is clearly not intended for general users, so the [0,1]
notation seems adequate for that context.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-28 18:52 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 [this message]
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
2010-12-10 21:56 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-11-29 9:26 ` Julien Danjou
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