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Re: pp-to-string heisenberg bug


From: Thien-Thi Nguyen
Subject: Re: pp-to-string heisenberg bug
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 22:31:11 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux)

() "Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden>
() Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:07:23 +0900

   That's unfortunate, because the technical term is "elision",
   and the semantics of elision is IMO much closer to truncation
   than to abbreviation.  An abbreviation is an incomplete copy
   conveying the full meaning of the original, while an elision is
   an incomplete copy lacking details considered unimportant by
   the editor.

   Thus, 'foo is an abbreviation of (quote foo) because the
   semantics are exactly the same by convention (enforced by
   reader macro), while (foo ...) is an elision of (foo bar baz
   quux) because it doesn't have the same semantics.

Yeah, "elision" is nicer.  Actually, "truncation" strikes my fancy,
too, after looking at the tree like Castenada would.  Words are such
traitors, yet spies we cannot due w/o.

thi




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