It sounds to me like people who have degrees in computer science came up
with the ~1 thing. My degree is in mathematics, so that makes me a lot more
conservative about adding new forms of notation.

Maybe we should use -0 to indicate when there is also a lack of commitment?

Bret

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 5:50 AM, Simon Stewart <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Željko Filipin
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 1:59 AM, Bret Pettichord <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >> Not sure I understand "~1". I thought it was +0. But then I still use
> >> paper for my todo list, so I am old-fashioned.
> >
> > I think I saw ~1 on selenium-dev list.
>
> That's what we do: +1, -1 and ~1. I think I prefer ~1 to +0 since it
> indicates a commitment and I can just total up the symbols rather than
> the numbers, but that's a rationalization :)
>
> Simon
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