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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: typo in accept-process-output (process.c)
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 10:19:42 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1II3Qs-0000lI-4C@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <w0tzrd3g4z.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (message from Glenn Morris on Sun, 05 Aug 2007 16:01:16 -0400)

    So the job only has to be done once, what replacement will people be
    happy with? Personally, I think plain "if" would be just fine, except
    perhaps to the tediously literal-minded.

In some cases, just "if" is clear.

					     Failing that, "only if".
    As a last resort, "if and only if" (yuck).

Where just "if" is not clear, you need to get creative.  Find a
rewrite which is clear.  "If and only if" is ok when you need it, but since it is a bit longer, you might look for a better method.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-08-06 14:19 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 [this message]
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
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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