On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 2:29 PM, David Fetter <da...@fetter.org> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 04:48:35PM +1300, Gavin Flower wrote: >> On 28/01/14 16:33, Andrew Dunstan wrote: >> >On 01/27/2014 10:24 PM, Sawada Masahiko wrote: >> >>Hi all, >> >> >> >>Attached patch fixes the typo which is in >> >>"src/backend/command/cluster.c". >> > >> >Are you sure that's a typo? "iff" is usually short hand for "if >> >and only if". >> > >> >cheers >> > >> >andrew >> > >> > >> Certainly, that is how I would interpret it. >> >> I came across that abbreviation in a first years Maths course >> "Principles of Mathematics" in 1968 at the University of Auckland.. > > By my rough count (ack -l '\biff\b' |wc -l), it's used to mean > equivalence 81 times in the source tree. Should we have a glossary of > such terms? And what about directly replacing those expressions in the comments of the code with some more understandable language? This would be more suited for non-native English speakers than maintaining a glossary that you can surely find here and there after some googling. -- Michael
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