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Proposed Wording PicoChange to the Error Terminology
- To: RPG@SAIL.Stanford.EDU, common-lisp-object-system@SAIL.Stanford.EDU
- Subject: Proposed Wording PicoChange to the Error Terminology
- From: Daniel L. Weinreb <DLW@ALDERAAN.SCRC.Symbolics.COM>
- Date: Mon, 21 Mar 88 12:06 EST
- In-reply-to: The message of 18 Mar 88 20:46 EST from Dick Gabriel <RPG@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 18 Mar 88 1746 PST
From: Dick Gabriel <RPG@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>
\item{\bull} If this situation occurs, the results are unpredictable. The
results may range from harmless to fatal to the running system.
Pico-nit: the second sentence reads as if the speaker were using the
locution "From X to Y to Z", as in "We carry all brands of cameras, from
Minoltas to Nikons to Canons". (As you might guess, I can't stand this
construct, particularly when the speaker isn't even talking about a
continuous range at all.) I'm not sure how to best fix this, but
"The results may range from harmless to fatal" would be fine with me.