Early days of electronic text and a math professor I had had a colleague who submitted a math textbook. Someone decided that "iff" was a typo and did a mass substitution of "if". As my prof said
"Going through a math text and putting back all the iff's that were supposed to be in the proofs was non-trivial" On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 9:23 AM, Martijn v Groningen <martijn.v.gronin...@gmail.com> wrote: > I found 103 occurrences of "iff" in the codebase... most in lucene-core > For each case we need then to find out if this is or isn't typo, so an issue > for this would a good idea. > > On 23 March 2012 14:09, Robert Muir <rcm...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> this is all over the codebase too by the way. Maybe we should open an >> issue to fix this confusion? >> >> On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 9:08 AM, Martijn v Groningen >> <martijn.v.gronin...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > On 23 March 2012 14:06, Robert Muir <rcm...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> I agree, and if its really important for some reason to document >> >> something as "if and only if", I think we should write it out >> >> completely and avoid specialized abbreviations. >> > >> > +1 I Completely agree. >> > >> > Martijn >> >> >> >> -- >> lucidimagination.com >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org >> > > > > -- > Met vriendelijke groet, > > Martijn van Groningen --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org
