Commit r3696: Fix documentation error.
Version mkgmap-r3696 was committed by steve on Sun, 16 Oct 2016 Fix documentation error. - Carlos Dávila http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/websvn/revision.php?repname=mkgmap&rev=3696
So, are these changes included in the new style manual that comes in the mkgmap installation package? Also, a small note about terminology. This issue pops up now and again and it's not a big one but I feel I should point it out. When you refer to what we in the U.S. call parentheses (singular parenthesis), you use the term "brackets". Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't most mathematicians use parenthesis to describe this character? "(" or ")". The term bracket usually implies either this "[" or this "]", while braces (or less often "curly brackets"), refer to "{" or "}" I know certain programming languages, C and Pascal among them, use the parentheses, brackets and braces terminology outlined above. Cheers, Dave On Sun, Oct 16, 2016 at 10:05 PM, svn commit <svn@mkgmap.org.uk> wrote:
Version mkgmap-r3696 was committed by steve on Sun, 16 Oct 2016
Fix documentation error.
- Carlos Dávila
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More brackets than you can shake a stick at... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bracket On 2016-10-17 05:14, Dave Swarthout wrote:
So, are these changes included in the new style manual that comes in the mkgmap installation package?
Also, a small note about terminology. This issue pops up now and again and it's not a big one but I feel I should point it out. When you refer to what we in the U.S. call parentheses (singular parenthesis), you use the term "brackets". Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't most mathematicians use parenthesis to describe this character? "(" or ")".
The term bracket usually implies either this "[" or this "]", while braces (or less often "curly brackets"), refer to "{" or "}"
I know certain programming languages, C and Pascal among them, use the parentheses, brackets and braces terminology outlined above.
Cheers, Dave
On Sun, Oct 16, 2016 at 10:05 PM, svn commit <svn@mkgmap.org.uk> wrote:
Version mkgmap-r3696 was committed by steve on Sun, 16 Oct 2016
Fix documentation error.
- Carlos Dávila
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So, are these changes included in the new style manual that comes in the mkgmap installation package?
Yes they are. The package always includes documentation created from the same version. The documentation on the web site is also supposed to be updated with every new build, but that isn't happening at the moment... as I just found out.
Also, a small note about terminology. This issue pops up now and again and it's not a big one but I feel I should point it out. When you refer to what we in the U.S. call parentheses (singular parenthesis), you use the term "brackets". Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't most mathematicians use parenthesis to describe this character? "(" or ")".
I see, interesting. From the link Colin just posted it seems that the term brackets as an alternative to parentheses in UK, but not in USA, usage. So I agree that we should not use the term bracket without any qualification. I suggest to consistently use the following then: () - parentheses [] - square brackets {} - curly braces <> - angle brackets All those sound fine from a UK perspective. Any problems? Best wishes ..Steve
On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 4:59 PM, Steve Ratcliffe <steve@parabola.me.uk> wrote:
() - parentheses [] - square brackets {} - curly braces <> - angle brackets
All those sound fine from a UK perspective. Any problems?
Perfect. Sounds good. -- Dave Swarthout Homer, Alaska Chiang Mai, Thailand Travel Blog at http://dswarthout.blogspot.com
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