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Re: Ada example in Figure 53
- To: Todd Allen <todd dot allen at ccur dot com>
- Subject: Re: Ada example in Figure 53
- From: Michael Eager <eager at eagercon dot com>
- Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 23:12:23 -0800
- CC: brender at gemgrp dot zko dot dec dot com, dwarf2 <dwarf2 at corp dot sgi dot com>
- References: <200103072034.f27KYoI16774@toad.ccur.com>
- Reply-To: Michael Eager <eager at eagercon dot com>
Todd Allen wrote:
>
> >
> > The last seems the more modern convention and easy to do. I will add
> > "(informative)" to each of the Appendixes.
> >
> > I am sure that the statement "The informational content is described in
> > Sections two through six." uses the term "informational" as a synonym
> > for "semantic" in contrast with the representation covered in Section 7.
> > Would it help to replace "informational" with "semantic" in this sentence?
> >
>
> I think it would help. I'm not sure most people would see any distinction
> between "informational" sections and "informative" annexes.
Terminology is perhaps confusing here. I'd hope that the
entire standard is informative and informational. :-)
I think that a sentence early in the document that states
that text in italics and the appendices are not part of the
standard, but are used to illustrate and explain the use of
Dwarf would be adequate.
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