From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: typo in accept-process-output (process.c) Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 17:21:33 -0700 Message-ID: References: <46B908E9.7070706@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1186532527 1193 80.91.229.12 (8 Aug 2007 00:22:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 00:22:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Jason Rumney" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 08 02:22:02 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IIZJJ-0005OG-Pe for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Aug 2007 02:22:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IIZJI-0003R4-N5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Aug 2007 20:22:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IIZJF-0003Qf-4S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Aug 2007 20:21:57 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IIZJC-0003Pt-ET for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Aug 2007 20:21:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IIZJC-0003Pq-AD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Aug 2007 20:21:54 -0400 Original-Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com ([148.87.113.118]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IIZJB-0006BD-0Q; Tue, 07 Aug 2007 20:21:53 -0400 Original-Received: from agmgw1.us.oracle.com (agmgw1.us.oracle.com [152.68.180.212]) by rgminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.6) with ESMTP id l780LmAd007540; Tue, 7 Aug 2007 18:21:48 -0600 Original-Received: from acsmt350.oracle.com (acsmt350.oracle.com [141.146.40.150]) by agmgw1.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.0/Switch-3.2.0) with ESMTP id l77KULtl022655; Tue, 7 Aug 2007 18:21:47 -0600 Original-Received: from 141.144.81.255 by acsmt350.oracle.com with ESMTP id 3103993671186532498; Tue, 07 Aug 2007 17:21:38 -0700 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <46B908E9.7070706@gnu.org> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3138 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:76170 Archived-At: > > 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".