On 3/28/19 4:23 PM, Andrew Haley wrote: > Dijkstra: > > The notation iff is used for "if and only if". A few years ago, > while lecturing in Denmark, I used Fif instead, reasoning that since > "if and only if" was a symmetric concept its notation should be > symmetric also. Without knowing it, I had punned in Danish and the > audience laughed, for fif in Danish means "a little trick". I > resolved thereafter to use fif so I could tell my joke, but my > colleagues talked me out of it.
Arggh! Sorry, that was Gries, not Dijkstra. I misremembered. -- Andrew Haley Java Platform Lead Engineer Red Hat UK Ltd. <https://www.redhat.com> EAC8 43EB D3EF DB98 CC77 2FAD A5CD 6035 332F A671
