From: Clinton Ebadi <clinton@unknownlamer.org>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH]doco Manual Conventions
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 10:34:12 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200311191034.33432.clinton@unknownlamer.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87brr9ffyo.fsf@zip.com.au>
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On Tuesday 18 November 2003 17:51, Kevin Ryde wrote:
> Stephen Compall <s11@member.fsf.org> writes:
> > * For some procedures, notably type predicates, we use "iff" to mean
> > "if and only if".
>
> I'd be tempted to reword everywhere iff occurs, it's a rather obscure
> abbreviation if you're not coming from a maths background.
I think that continuing to use iff is a good idea; its usage is explained in
the manual so it is no more obscure than `=>' or '-|' are.
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-17 21:48 [PATCH]doco Manual Conventions Stephen Compall
2003-11-18 22:32 ` Marius Vollmer
2003-11-18 22:51 ` Kevin Ryde
2003-11-18 23:01 ` Stephen Compall
2003-11-19 15:34 ` Clinton Ebadi [this message]
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