[perl6/specs] 177959: s/series/sequence/ to accord with math culture

2010-09-23 Thread noreply 
Branch: refs/heads/master
Home:   http://github.com/perl6/specs

Commit: 17795925bc48affda10275bd2768e1f2d9ef6345

http://github.com/perl6/specs/commit/17795925bc48affda10275bd2768e1f2d9ef6345
Author: TimToady la...@wall.org
Date:   2010-09-23 (Thu, 23 Sep 2010)

Changed paths:
  M S03-operators.pod
  M S05-regex.pod
  M S09-data.pod
  M S32-setting-library/Containers.pod

Log Message:
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s/series/sequence/ to accord with math culture

To a mathematician, a series is the sum of a sequence.  We don't want
to confuse the poor mathematicians any more than they already are.

Re: [perl6/specs] 177959: s/series/sequence/ to accord with math culture

2010-09-23 Thread Darren Duncan 

nore...@github.com wrote:

Commit: 17795925bc48affda10275bd2768e1f2d9ef6345

http://github.com/perl6/specs/commit/17795925bc48affda10275bd2768e1f2d9ef6345
Author: TimToady la...@wall.org
Date:   2010-09-23 (Thu, 23 Sep 2010)

Log Message:
---
s/series/sequence/ to accord with math culture

To a mathematician, a series is the sum of a sequence.  We don't want
to confuse the poor mathematicians any more than they already are.


These kinds of changes are always welcome.  Anything that will be more correct 
to the mathematicians/logicians/etc without being appreciably worse to anyone 
else is a good thing, this being an example. -- Darren Duncan