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Re: typo in frame.el
From: |
Juri Linkov |
Subject: |
Re: typo in frame.el |
Date: |
Sun, 11 Apr 2004 01:54:02 +0300 |
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Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
> "Drew Adams" <address@hidden> writes:
>> Hmmm... I suppose so. But two silly counter-arguments, then I'll rest:
>>
>> 1) The unwashed masses seem to have digested ":)" OK...
>
> "Digested"? I'd say they created it. I doubt that hackers need
> explicit warning labels for nonobvious humor.
:-) is nothing more than a symbol to indicate an emotional state of
the sender. And as in RL one can make jokes with a different face,
using smiley makes the same difference as for making jokes with
a smile or with a Good Friday face :-)
> I said that non-matheticians/programmers/logicians use "if" in the
> meaning "iff" more often than otherwise, so they get more than half
> of its meaning.
>
> Anyway, in this case, the doc string is unclear anyway.
>
> It should be
>
> Turn cursor blink mode on if ARG is positive, off otherwise.
Rephrasing it will undoubtedly help to reduce misunderstanding for
non-mathematicians/programmers/logicians, and it even don't have to
fit on one line in the given case, because it's not the first line of
a docstring. But anyhow, it seems that eliminating "iff" is too late,
because "iff" is already too widespread in Emacs source files.
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
- Re: typo in frame.el, (continued)
- Re: typo in frame.el, Alex Schroeder, 2004/04/09
- RE: typo in frame.el, Drew Adams, 2004/04/09
- Re: typo in frame.el, Simon Josefsson, 2004/04/09
- RE: typo in frame.el, Drew Adams, 2004/04/09
- Re: typo in frame.el, David Kastrup, 2004/04/09
- Re: typo in frame.el, Simon Josefsson, 2004/04/09
- RE: typo in frame.el, Drew Adams, 2004/04/09
- Re: typo in frame.el, David Kastrup, 2004/04/09
- RE: typo in frame.el, Drew Adams, 2004/04/09
- Re: typo in frame.el, David Kastrup, 2004/04/09
- Re: typo in frame.el,
Juri Linkov <=
- Re: typo in frame.el, Alan Shutko, 2004/04/09
- Re: typo in frame.el, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2004/04/09
- Re: typo in frame.el, Miles Bader, 2004/04/09
- Re: typo in frame.el, Richard Stallman, 2004/04/10