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David Kastrup |
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Word usage |
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Sun, 28 Nov 2010 10:43:40 +0100 |
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In color.el, the doc strings frequently say something like
"must be between [0,1]."
That is bad English. Either you write "must be between 0 and 1
inclusively." (which is less techno-babble), or you write "must be in
[0,1]". But a value can't be "between" an interval. That is
nonsensical.
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David Kastrup
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