> From: Paul Smith <[email protected]> > Reply-To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected], [email protected] > 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. _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
