From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2003-08-23T15:21:24+09:00
Subject: Re: POLS and names of mathematical functions

Hi,

In message "Re: POLS and names of mathematical functions"
    on 03/08/23, "Josef 'Jupp' Schugt" <jupp@gmx.de> writes:

|> |Implementing some additional mathematical functions I came across
|> |acosh, asinh, and atanh. Here the Principle of Least Surprise runs
|> |into a severe problem.
|> 
|> Ah, please stop mentioning POLS whenever your personal expectation
|> is not satisfied. I'm sick of them.
|
|You possibly misunderstood me. The function names are *not*
|unexpected to me. arcosh and the like would not be unexpected to me,
|either. I was wondering how you did resolve the question which name
|to actually use.

You possibly misunderstood me.  I didn't mean to shut you up.
I just wanted you not to mention POLS when you ask/propose something,
because it's based on your personal background.

							matz.