Subject: why it is called a grove From: "Russell Steven Shawn O'Connor" <roconnor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 13:25:21 -0400 (EDT) |
On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Frank A. Christoph wrote: > Well, this is a silly thing to argue about, but, though there is undoubtedly > something to what you say, it does not sit well with the fact that the > non-technical meaning of "grove" is essentially a collection of trees, nor > that the term "tree" is used in the standard to refer to something > substantially more specific than "any rooted hierarchical data structure." > Besides, "grove" is a common enough word that it would be a poor choice to > name something so concrete and specific. The fact that a grove could contain a collection of disjoint content trees is why it is called a grove. See Note 453 of the HyTime Standard. <URL:http://www.ornl.gov/sgml/wg8/docs/n1920/html/clause-A.4.1.html#clause-A.4.1.5> -- Russell O'Connor roconnor@xxxxxxxxxxxx <URL:http://www.undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca/%7Eroconnor/> ``And truth irreversibly destroys the meaning of its own message'' -- Anindita Dutta, ``The Paradox of Truth, the Truth of Entropy'' DSSSList info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dssslist
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