Kieren MacMillan <kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca> writes:
> Hi David,
>
>>>> What is \etc ?
>>> A rather brilliant addition by David K. (I believe?),
>> when it is applicable, it's sort of tacky.
>
> Not sure which definition (or perhaps definitions?) of 'tacky' you are
> intending here?
> The meaning "not having or exhibiting good taste" surely doesn’t apply
> (at least IMO).
2: tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish
colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a
meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments" [syn:
{brassy}, {cheap}, {flash}, {flashy}, {garish}, {gaudy},
{gimcrack}, {loud}, {meretricious}, {tacky}, {tatty},
{tawdry}, {trashy}]
It is a bit of a show-off.
>> when describing a feature for hiding complexity, I don't manage
>> to confine the description's complexity in a similar manner.
>
> Documentation is so often more verbose than coded features — just
> think of the volumes of prose required to explain, in even a cursory
> way, something like
A 4590 line graphic file?
exp(i pi) + 1 = 0
does not seem like a lot and has the same descriptive content (arguably,
the exponential function is more basic and well-defined anyway than
powers where negative and/or complex exponents are concerned). And I
can add its power series definition in one paragraph, and the definition
of complex numbers as polynomials modulo i^2+1 in another and still take
up less space...
--
David Kastrup
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