From: Julien Danjou <julien@danjou.info>
To: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Word usage
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 10:26:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <sa38w0cv5uc.fsf@cigue.easter-eggs.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8739qlokab.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (David Kastrup's message of "Sun, 28 Nov 2010 10:43:40 +0100")
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On Sun, Nov 28 2010, David Kastrup wrote:
> In color.el, the doc strings frequently say something like
>
> "must be between [0,1]."
>
> That is bad English. Either you write "must be between 0 and 1
> inclusively." (which is less techno-babble), or you write "must be in
> [0,1]". But a value can't be "between" an interval. That is
> nonsensical.
Fair enough. I've fixed that.
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Julien Danjou
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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
2010-12-10 21:56 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-11-29 9:26 ` Julien Danjou [this message]
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