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From: | Akim Demaille |
Subject: | Re: RFC: doc for `Handling Tools that Produce Many Outputs' |
Date: | Mon, 09 Feb 2004 13:05:52 +0100 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) |
> Personally, I positively *like* "witness" - it describes what it is > in a colourful way. For the records, this is the official English word for the same concept in logic. A witness of an existential quantifier \exists x. P(x) is precisely a t such that P(t). So I believe witness is perfect for the current job. I remember we had a similar debate for Autoconf years ago. I can't remember the point though. Any witness?
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