On 04/15/2014 05:36 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
On 04/15/2014 06:26 PM, Thom Brown wrote:
On 15 April 2014 23:19, Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum
<adsm...@wars-nicht.de> wrote:
Hi,
stumbled over a number of "iff" in the source where "if" is meant -
not sure
what the real story behind this is, but attached is a patch to fix
the about
80 occurrences.
This only appears in comments, not in any code path.
Yeah, apparently those are intentional, and mean "if and only if"
(i.e. <=>)
This is a reasonably common idiom, or used to be.
If it has fallen into disuse the news has failed to reach me:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_and_only_if
http://www.mathwords.com/i/if_and_only_if.htm
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Iff.html
...
Cheers,
Steve
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