Am Di., 18. Dez. 2018 um 02:34 Uhr schrieb Bradley Lucier
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>
> On 12/17/18 4:22 AM, Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen wrote:
> > What about calling the concept "d-interval" instead
>
> Generally, I find your comments about mathematical terminology too
> categorical.  As you know, many times several different terms are used
> to describe the same object, and, on the other side, one term is often
> used to describe objects in different areas.

I agree. It's just that to my ears, the term "interval" connotes a
very different thing than for what it is used in the SRFI.

> I don't view Wikipedia as the last word on anything, but the Wikipedia
> page for "interval" talks about multi-dimensional intervals with the
> same connotation that I use; this section was added in 2008 by Jorge
> Stolfi, so it's survived for a while.
>
> I don't object to your suggestion to use the term $d$-interval in the
> document to characterize the objects, but I'd probably use simply
> "interval-" as the prefix to the operations on them.

I would be happy with this suggestion.

Marc