[getdns-api] Some really trivial wordsmithing ...

Paul Hoffman paul.hoffman at vpnc.org
Thu Apr 10 09:52:19 MST 2014


On Apr 10, 2014, at 9:31 AM, Daniel Stenberg <daniel at haxx.se> wrote:

> On Thu, 10 Apr 2014, Paul Hoffman wrote:
> 
>>> The value is between 0 and 1; the default is 0"
>>> 
>>> is actually "[ ... ] The value is either 0 or 1; the default is 0."
>> 
>> Humorously, this was purposeful: the use of "between" matches all of the other descriptions of numeric ranges throughout the document.
> 
> I would argue that it could be misunderstood or interpreted differently.
> 
> In my brain, "between" doesn't necessarily include the end points. Thus between 0 and 1 would be something larger than 0 but smaller than 1...

I could add "inclusive" to every pair of integers, but it is *completely* clear from the context, so I left it out.

--Paul Hoffman


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