On 12 December 2012 01:14, Mark Nottingham <m...@mnot.net> wrote: [snip]
> > Personally -- to me, it seems like you're getting hung up on the word "add." > We've had a few bits of feedback, where people try to map a particular > meaning of one of the operation names to a programming language or other > system. In this format, "add" means what the format definition says it means, > because otherwise we have to rationalise all of the different systems people > might use it with to make sense. > "When I use a word", Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less." Lewis Carroll. Through the Looking Glass. 1872.
