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From: Willie WY Wong <wongwwy@member.ams.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Portage 2.2
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 22:06:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130724200621.GA3609@Gee-Mi-Ni.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51EFB0A3.9070309@gmail.com>

On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 12:46:59PM +0200, Penguin Lover Alan McKinnon squawked:
> @set1+@set2/@set3 reduces to:
> 
> all the elements of set1 and set2 without the elements that are in set3
> (/ is difference).
> 

Speaking as a mathematician (and A. Gottlieb will agree with me), I
would be rather annoyed that they chose (if this is not a misquote 
from the original proposed documentation) to use '/' for set 
difference instead of '\' as it is supposed to be. 

Humph.

W


-- 
Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire 
         et vice versa   ~~~  I. Newton


  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-07-24 19:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-24 10:00 [gentoo-user] Portage 2.2 Pavel Volkov
2013-07-24 10:05 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-07-24 10:13 ` Yohan Pereira
2013-07-24 10:52   ` Pavel Volkov
2013-07-24 10:53     ` Alan McKinnon
2013-07-24 10:17 ` Neil Bothwick
2013-07-24 10:46   ` Alan McKinnon
2013-07-24 13:20     ` Neil Bothwick
2013-07-24 13:27       ` Alan McKinnon
2013-07-24 15:26         ` Michael Orlitzky
2013-07-24 20:06     ` Willie WY Wong [this message]
2013-07-24 20:15       ` gottlieb
2013-07-24 21:13         ` Alan McKinnon
2013-07-24 21:21           ` gottlieb
2013-07-24 21:24             ` Alan McKinnon
2013-07-24 12:06 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras

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