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On 12 December 2012 01:14, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> wrote:
[snip]

>
> Personally -- to me, it seems like you're getting hung up on the word "ad=
d." We've had a few bits of feedback, where people try to map a particular =
meaning of one of the operation names to a programming language or other sy=
stem. In this format, "add" means what the format definition says it means,=
 because otherwise we have to rationalise all of the different systems peop=
le might use it with to make sense.
>



"When I use a word", Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone,
"it means what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less."

Lewis Carroll. Through the Looking Glass. 1872.