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Re: filesets
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: filesets |
Date: |
Mon, 22 Oct 2007 05:00:10 -0400 |
I know that speaking of `the list of marked files' is longer than
speaking of `filesets'. That is bad. However, the word `list' has
specific meaning in Lisp. It is good to express it.
At the user level, a fileset is a collection of files,
collection in an abstract sense, not a Lisp object.
To speak of a "list of files" would put in a false trail.
I am not sure how bad this confusion would be in practice.
Maybe it is acceptable.
"Set of files" would be more like it; it's the same concept as
"fileset", but by swapping the words around we would avoid the
implication that it is the same as the "fileset" discussed in
another section.
- filesets, Richard Stallman, 2007/10/21
- Re: filesets, Robert J. Chassell, 2007/10/21
- Re: filesets,
Richard Stallman <=
- Re: filesets, Paul Michael Reilly, 2007/10/22