iff is academic jargon. Let's be explicit. Dawid
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 2:46 PM, Erick Erickson <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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 >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > On 23 March 2012 14:06, Robert Muir <[email protected]> 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: [email protected] >>> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Met vriendelijke groet, >> >> Martijn van Groningen > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
