[thelist] Coding standards.... [headers]
Joel D Canfield
joel at spinhead.com
Tue Dec 12 17:11:26 CST 2006
> Joel D Canfield wrote:
> > picture me, standing in front of an audience speaking. "Our
> first item
> > is blah. Our third item is blah blah blah. There was no
> second item."
>
> But if the purpose of the number following 'h' is to denote sequence,
> then am I doubly flawed in having 5 '2nd' items?
eh, poorly worded on my part. should say more like "our most important
item is blah; our third most important item is blah blah blah. there is
no second most important item." which isn't logical.
> > I'm trying to understand your perspective, but it keeps
> coming back to
> > the appearance that you're focusing on, um, appearance. Yes?
>
> Not appearance... I know I pointedly disagreed with the
> notion of hs as
> a tree schema, and also with the use of the term 'importance'... But
> those are perhaps the best raw general terms to describe the semantic
> structure I'm talking about!
So, are you agreeing in spite of yourself, or still disagreeing? ;)
I'm enjoying this discussion; forces me to think about what I think, and
I'm a good meta-mental mood right now.
joel
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