From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: typo in frame.el Date: 09 Apr 2004 23:11:12 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1081545598 6371 80.91.224.253 (9 Apr 2004 21:19:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2004 21:19:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Simon Josefsson Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 09 23:19:51 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BC3Pj-0001Oi-00 for ; Fri, 09 Apr 2004 23:19:51 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BC3Pj-0002LD-00 for ; Fri, 09 Apr 2004 23:19:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BC3Kc-0000Dk-BD for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Fri, 09 Apr 2004 17:14:34 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BC3J4-0007XC-MP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Apr 2004 17:12:58 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BC3IU-0006nt-DC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Apr 2004 17:12:53 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BC3HQ-000605-FM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Apr 2004 17:11:16 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1BC3HF-00066M-El; Fri, 09 Apr 2004 17:11:05 -0400 Original-To: "Drew Adams" In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 15 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:21404 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:21404 "Drew Adams" writes: > How about we use "<=>", conventionally, in doc strings, but we also > explain this convention in the Emacs manual, for those who have > never seen it? If we adopt such a convention, then we should perhaps > also conventionally use "=>" for "implies" ("only if") and "<=" for > "if". I object. Really. This would carry the message that Emacs is intended for mathematicians and/or scientists as main audience. Apart from which those symbols are just ASCII art representations from what they are supposed to be. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum