Hi Branden, On Sun, Nov 17, 2024 at 10:43:43AM GMT, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > Hi Alex, > > At 2024-11-17T12:33:13+0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > > Hi Helge, > > > > On Sun, Nov 17, 2024 at 10:46:22AM GMT, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > > > Without further ado, the following was found: > > > > > > Issue: Other pages don't use FROM and until → to - maybe align? > > > > When a feature is discontinued, "from" makes more sense than "since". > > "Since" means that it still exists today. > > > > I'll eventually do a consistency fix in this regard. > > > > About until/to, I think until is more common. I'll also check. > > Where the value of unambiguous expression is paramount, it's hard to > beat interval notation, like "[2.6.24, 6.3)". > > Failing that, I would select a fixed set of English words to correspond > to interval notation, and document that, probably in man-pages(7). > > For instance, and just spitballing here: > > since [ > after ( > until ) > through ] I kind of did that, but it seems I didn't do it well. There are a few places where it's not consistent. ']' (through) is something we don't use. Normally, we specify the version when something was fixed, but not the last broken one. And about since, is it correct English to say "since x until y"? Or is it more correct to say "from x until y"? In my head, it would be: [x, y) From x until y. (I think we also use since...until somtimes.) [0, y) Until y. [x, today] Since x. I think those are all the common uses of these terms. > > I wouldn't expect this choice of associations to be accepted without > some amount of argument--that's the advantage of proper interval > notation. I might be convinced to use interval notation. I'll first try to be consistent using English terms, and after that I'll consider a second pass of changes that might transform to interval notation. > > But, if interval notation is thought too unfamiliar or too awkward- > looking for man page readers and/or contributors, such a mapping of > English words to it might be the next best thing. Disciplined use of > the terms will be important. Cheers, Alex > > Regards, > Branden -- <https://www.alejandro-colomar.es/>
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