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Stream: mathlib4

Topic: Liminf/Limsup naming


Anatole Dedecker (Jun 26 2023 at 09:25):

I think the current naming of docs#Filter.limsInf and docs#Filter.liminf is really weird (if you can't see why, I'm talking about the additional s before Inf). I guess this is to have some sort of consistency with sInf, but it's really weird since s refers to Set and we are talking about a filter. An argument could be made about using fInf since the liminf is the natural extension of sInf to filters (in the sense that the liminf of a principal filter is just the infimum of the set EDIT: you need the set to be nonempty...), but I'd say the easiest way to solve it would be to keep limInf and liminf. Any thoughts on that?

Yaël Dillies (Jun 26 2023 at 11:18):

Have you thought about iLiminf/sLiminf?

Anatole Dedecker (Jun 26 2023 at 12:27):

That would work, but that s still looks a bit off imo...

Yury G. Kudryashov (Jun 26 2023 at 14:33):

Another way is to get rid of limsInf and use liminf id when needed.


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