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From: Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH]doco Manual Conventions
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 08:51:27 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87brr9ffyo.fsf@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200311172148.hAHLmAda008250@csserver.evansville.edu> (Stephen Compall's message of "Mon, 17 Nov 2003 21:48:10 GMT")

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.


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-11-18 22:51 UTC|newest]

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 [this message]
2003-11-18 23:01   ` Stephen Compall
2003-11-19 15:34   ` Clinton Ebadi

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