From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
Cc: Michael Olson <mwolson@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: typo in accept-process-output (process.c)
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 12:37:55 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv8x8nmhfp.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46B85809.8060009@gnu.org> (Jason Rumney's message of "Tue\, 07 Aug 2007 12\:31\:21 +0100")
>> The conditionals "only if" and "if" are both unidirectional, whereas "if
>> and only if" is bidirectional. If you want to preserve the logic, it is
>> best to change "iff" to "if and only if". It's not nearly as gross as
>> changing the meaning would be.
> I think the logic can be preserved by changing iff to "if", and for any
> instances of "if" that do not mean "iff", there should be some wording
> like "... may be ... if ... " to indicate that there is not a
> bidirectional correspondence.
> In general, bidirectionality is assumed by most speakers of English (as
> opposed to mathematical logic) for a bare "if".
I think a better approach is to keep using `iff' (also known as `ssi' in
French), but to make it such that the user can click on it to get to the
Glossary where we add an entry for it.
We could later on use the same feature for some other terms (e.g. "fringe").
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-07 16:37 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 [this message]
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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