--On Sunday, December 16, 2012 18:12 -0500 Barry Leiba
<[email protected]> 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
> <[email protected]> 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:
>...

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