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Re: pp-to-string heisenberg bug
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Thien-Thi Nguyen |
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Re: pp-to-string heisenberg bug |
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Wed, 02 Apr 2008 22:31:11 +0200 |
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() "Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden>
() Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:07:23 +0900
That's unfortunate, because the technical term is "elision",
and the semantics of elision is IMO much closer to truncation
than to abbreviation. An abbreviation is an incomplete copy
conveying the full meaning of the original, while an elision is
an incomplete copy lacking details considered unimportant by
the editor.
Thus, 'foo is an abbreviation of (quote foo) because the
semantics are exactly the same by convention (enforced by
reader macro), while (foo ...) is an elision of (foo bar baz
quux) because it doesn't have the same semantics.
Yeah, "elision" is nicer. Actually, "truncation" strikes my fancy,
too, after looking at the tree like Castenada would. Words are such
traitors, yet spies we cannot due w/o.
thi