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Bug#210879: Reopen: revise odd language in 'constitution.txt' -- "K Developers" ... "not integers"



reopen 210879 ! 

thanks 

The story so far...

AC reported that certain language was ambiguous.

Many objections ensued**, the substance of which can be divided in two types.  
The first kind was from non-native English speakers who honestly didn't see any 
ambiguity.  The second kind was from mathematically minded English speakers who 
held that ambiguity is subjective and therefore irrelevant to "technical" 
topics -- to detect ambiguity therein is to misread.  Being programmers, 
probably some of the non-native English speakers are also mathematically 
minded.  

(**why so many objections to a mere wishlist bug?  Dunno...)  

Alternative wordings have been suggested, but there's been no replies on those 
yet, perhaps because doing so might be a tacit admission of error, or because 
nobody's paying attention, though #210879's turn-around time from open to 
closed seems incongruously rapid.




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