From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2004-06-15T01:57:26+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] celsoft.com/Battery 0.1.1

Sean O'Dell wrote:
> I am about to put the word "arbitrary" back into every single 
> celsoft.com/Battery document I've written if people refuse to respect my 
> opinion in the matter and continue to berate me over it.  I took it out 
> initially trying to avoid hurting anyone's feelings, but since it seems 
> apparent that this discussion is going to go on and on, I feel almost 
> compelled to hold up the word on a billboard.  I used the word properly, and 
> I still meant what I said.  I'm starting to feel sorry for taking the word 
> out of the docs.

Relax, this isn't a war.

I can see how 1) unit tests "ought" not to rely on an order but 2) we
might sometimes want to break that rule and control the ordering.

But half of my interest in this thread is seeing how various people
think and use words.

Would you say that the ordering of the words in a dictionary is
arbitrary?


Hal