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From: William Cheswick <ches@cheswick.com>
To: Douglas McIlroy <douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] [Haskell-cafe] Terminator syntax style (Was: Nested (=>) (Was: On finding the right exposition...))
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2021 09:54:28 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <C05A5003-7DFE-4275-81E3-3F4042B2332A@cheswick.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKH6PiVCCo2P09cto4x4iCuw3oA+XYyGtKvrMiyV+XeG1xL_hA@mail.gmail.com>

Doug, if you insist on applying your superb editing skills on wiki material, we will never hear from you again!

> On Oct 7, 2021, at 9:50 AM, Douglas McIlroy <douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu> wrote:
> 
> Apropos of  "finding the right  exposition"!, consider the cited wiki article:
> 
>       Separator: There is a symbol between each element.
> 
> The more carefully you read this the more it becomes nonsense.
> 
> 1, "Each element" is an individual. You can't put something between an
> individual.
> 
> 2 The defining sentence states a property of a representation of a
> sequence. It fails to indicate that "separator" is the symbol's role.
> 
> In fact what's being defined is "separator notation", not the bare
> word "separator". This usage appears only later in the article. It
> should be employed throughout--most importantly in the title and the
> definition. The same goes for "terminator".
> 
> Doug


  reply	other threads:[~2021-10-07 14:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-07 13:50 Douglas McIlroy
2021-10-07 13:54 ` William Cheswick [this message]
2021-10-07 19:28 ` John Cowan
2021-10-07 19:52 Norman Wilson

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