Re: [spoon-discuss] Nearest location

[Dan Waldron <wald7330@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> The 'nearest location' is not explicitly defined anywhere. Do we want another 
> near-crisis like the DimShips again?

But we have a means for calculating distance.  "Nearest" is commonly used
to mean "least distance".  Since our usage of "nearest location" exactly
coincides with the standard English usage, and that standard English usage
is pretty clear, we don't need to seperately define it.

"Nearest location" is in the same category as "automated script", "dice
roll", "transfer", "email address", "integer", or any number of other
things understood without an explicit definition.

There are a few words that we should define because they are used in ways
different from the standard English usage.  Try any of these: "object",
"entity", "ballot", "document", or "attribute".

Dan Waldron

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