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Re: filesets


From: Richard Stallman
Subject: Re: filesets
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 05:00:10 -0400

    I know that speaking of `the list of marked files' is longer than
    speaking of `filesets'.  That is bad.  However, the word `list' has
    specific meaning in Lisp.  It is good to express it.

At the user level, a fileset is a collection of files,
collection in an abstract sense, not a Lisp object.
To speak of a "list of files" would put in a false trail.

I am not sure how bad this confusion would be in practice.
Maybe it is acceptable.

"Set of files" would be more like it; it's the same concept as
"fileset", but by swapping the words around we would avoid the
implication that it is the same as the "fileset" discussed in
another section.




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