[talk-au] Default access restrictions

James Livingston doctau at mac.com
Sat Jan 9 02:07:27 GMT 2010


On 07/01/2010, at 5:25 PM, John Smith wrote:
> 2010/1/7 Roy Wallace <waldo000000 at gmail.com>:
> I usually interpret "designated" as "signed", which is
>> 
>> an attractive interpretation because it's verifiable.
> 
> To avoid confusion perhaps it should have been bicycle=signed? :)

Then we would have confusion around whether a picture on the ground counts as a "sign" or not :)

My dictionary says that "designated" (in this sense) means denoted, marked or pointed out, which I'd say a sign or marking on the ground does. I seem to recall tagging list arguing about what designated means quite a few times already.




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