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Re: directory search fails!
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: directory search fails! |
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Tue, 28 Sep 2010 09:59:50 -0400 |
> From: Paul Smith <address@hidden>
> Reply-To: address@hidden
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 09:41:45 -0400
>
> > No, he has a point here. Using different, though synonym, words for
> > the same entity runs the risk of confusing the reader.
>
> This isn't an entity, it's an action.
Well, action is also an entity, on some level ;-)
> In the larger picture it seems to me that the manual would be the poorer
> and much less pleasant to read without its current style...
And I would agree. But this section is special: it tries to be a
formal description of an algorithm. Formal descriptions should IMO be
exact, even if that makes them less "lively".
> But I'm not
> comfortable with removing all the "interesting" text and reducing it to
> "See Dick Run"-style content.
I didn't mean to suggest that in general for the whole manual.
There's a fine balance to strike here, and in any case I was talking
only about the specific subsection we were discussing.
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