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Grobian posted <20060209214832.GD28046@g.o>, excerpted below, on |
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Thu, 09 Feb 2006 22:48:32 +0100: |
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> .. [3] For the purpose of readability, we will refer to 1, 2 and |
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> 4-tuples, even though tuple in itself suggest a field consisting of |
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> two values. For clarity: a 1-tuple describes a single value field, |
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> while a 4-tuple decribes a field consisting out of four values. |
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OK, despite the given reasoning, I found this distracting. Perhaps this |
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is one of Ciaran's English readability suggestions, but is there a reason |
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not to s/segment/tuple/g ? That seems to me more accurate, "segment" is |
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more accessible English to non-programmers than "tuple", and it should |
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cure the distraction problem I experienced. Of course, it could be just me... |
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If the current usage, and thus the footnote, is retained, there's a typo |
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in the last line quoted. s/decribes/describes/ (which I only caught when |
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the spellchecker hilighted it in the quote as I replied). |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in |
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http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html |
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