June 2, 2016
11:39 p.m.
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2016 13:54:05 -0700 From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> Message-ID: <2ae93448-8529-f99c-c8f1-781df9e72fee@cs.ucla.edu> | and this unexpected aspect of our invented abbreviations | can easily confuse non-experts. This I wholly support - but with the opposite conclusion than you arrive at. Absolutely anything we can do in the abbreviation field to have it cause problems to anyone who attempts to do anything with it other than display it to users, we should do. Create ambiguities, ... all of that is a good thing. We need to stop software (or specifications) attempting to treat the abbreviation as input data for anything at all. kre