--On Sunday, December 16, 2012 18:12 -0500 Barry Leiba
<barryleiba(_at_)computer(_dot_)org> wrote:
Anyone have any comments on what I suggested below?
How about "+1" --complete agreement. The terminology, if
interpreted in a "normal English" context, lies somewhere
between confusing and misleading and a precise local definition
is the more efficient fix.
john
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On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 11:25 PM, Barry Leiba
<barryleiba(_at_)computer(_dot_)org> wrote:
Personally -- to me, it seems like you're getting hung up on
the word "add."
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"add" means what the format definition says it means,
because otherwise we have to rationalise all of the
different systems people might use it with to make sense.
OK, I'll buy that. Then let's take a different approach, and
make it clearer that it's Humpty Dumpty's version of "add",
so maybe neither I nor Alice will get hung up on it:
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