From: David Symonds <dsymonds@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 11:45:31 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/7] include $PATH in generating list of commands for "help -a"
Message-ID: <ee77f5c20710290445y553fc9fo90c6e4df9b2aa1a7@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710291129250.4362@racer.site>

On 10/29/07, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, 28 Oct 2007, Scott Parish wrote:
>
> > I was thinking set operations when i named this (hense "a" and "b"),
> > but i'll try this out.
>
> Yes, I guessed that.  But in that case, "subtract" is actively wrong,
> since you cannot guarantee (and indeed do not want to assume) that one is
> the subset of the other.

The nearest set theory operation would be "difference" (or
"complement"); that does not require that the subtrahend is a subset
of the minuend.


Dave.