On 10/29/07, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, 28 Oct 2007, Scott Parish wrote: > > > I was thinking set operations when i named this (hense "a" and "b"), > > but i'll try this out. > > Yes, I guessed that. But in that case, "subtract" is actively wrong, > since you cannot guarantee (and indeed do not want to assume) that one is > the subset of the other. The nearest set theory operation would be "difference" (or "complement"); that does not require that the subtrahend is a subset of the minuend. Dave. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
