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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "Jason Rumney" <jasonr@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: typo in accept-process-output (process.c)
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 17:21:33 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BNELLINCGFJLDJIKDGACMEEKCBAA.drew.adams@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46B908E9.7070706@gnu.org>

> > Also, the Emacs user community includes mostly developers so 
> > far, and many of them produce software, specs, and documentation
> > that are aimed at other developers. My guess is that many
> > (most?) Emacs users will already be
> > familiar with "iff", but I could be wrong about that.
> 
> Many may be familiar, but many are also not familiar, even developers. I
> had never encountered the term until the original bug report a few
> months ago. I suspect it is seldom encountered outside of the field of
> computer science and certain branches of mathematics and philosophy.

All the more reason to use "if and only if" rather than "iff".

  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-08  0:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-05 12:04 typo in accept-process-output (process.c) Dieter Wilhelm
2007-08-05 12:21 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-05 20:01   ` Glenn Morris
2007-08-05 22:54     ` Dieter Wilhelm
2007-08-06  0:06       ` Nick Roberts
2007-08-06  6:41         ` Dieter Wilhelm
2007-08-06 14:19     ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-06 20:50       ` Michael Olson
2007-08-07 11:02         ` Stephen Berman
2007-08-07 11:18           ` David Kastrup
2007-08-07 11:31         ` Jason Rumney
2007-08-07 16:37           ` Stefan Monnier
2007-08-07 17:33             ` Drew Adams
2007-08-07 22:01               ` Dieter Wilhelm
2007-08-07 22:17                 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-08-07 23:16                   ` Drew Adams
2007-08-08  0:06                     ` Jason Rumney
2007-08-08  0:21                       ` Drew Adams [this message]
2007-08-09  0:07                   ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-08  3:06                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-08-08  5:50                   ` Dieter Wilhelm
2007-08-08 18:43                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-08-08 20:14                       ` David Kastrup
2007-08-08 20:24                       ` Stefan Monnier
2007-08-08 20:27                         ` martin rudalics
2007-08-08 20:53                           ` Stefan Monnier
2007-08-12 20:33                       ` Christian Schlauer
2007-08-12 22:01                         ` Stephen Berman
2007-08-13  5:00                         ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-05 20:54   ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-08  7:54     ` Glenn Morris
2007-08-09  0:07       ` Richard Stallman

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