--On Sunday, December 16, 2012 18:12 -0500 Barry Leiba <barryleiba@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Anyone have any comments on what I suggested below? How about "+1" --complete agreement. The terminology, if interpreted in a "normal English" context, lies somewhere between confusing and misleading and a precise local definition is the more efficient fix. john >... > On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 11:25 PM, Barry Leiba > <barryleiba@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Personally -- to me, it seems like you're getting hung up on >>> the word "add." >> ... >>> "add" means what the format definition says it means, >>> because otherwise we have to rationalise all of the >>> different systems people might use it with to make sense. >> >> OK, I'll buy that. Then let's take a different approach, and >> make it clearer that it's Humpty Dumpty's version of "add", >> so maybe neither I nor Alice will get hung up on it: >...