[rayiner]

> I don't think the distinction between exhaustive and non-exhaustive constituents is something that most people would pick up on.

I imagine this sentence made a lot of programmers and lawyers twitch.

[dctoedt]

>> I don't think the distinction between exhaustive and non-exhaustive constituents is something that most people would pick up on.

> I imagine this sentence made a lot of programmers and lawyers twitch.

Patent lawyers especially. In a patent claim, the difference between comprising and consisting of can be crucial. [1]

[1] http://www.bios.net/daisy/patentlens/2618.html

[bweitzman]

Programmers and lawyers are not most people.