Re: svn commit: r1304320 - /lucene/dev/trunk/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/IndexWriter.java

2012-03-23 Thread Robert Muir
Is this a typo or intended to be iff (if and only if)? On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 8:50 AM, m...@apache.org wrote: Author: mvg Date: Fri Mar 23 12:50:14 2012 New Revision: 1304320 URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1304320view=rev Log: fixed small typo Modified:    

Re: svn commit: r1304320 - /lucene/dev/trunk/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/IndexWriter.java

2012-03-23 Thread Martijn v Groningen
I don't know. I wasn't aware that iff has a meaning. I'll change it back if it is: if and only if. Martijn On 23 March 2012 13:57, Robert Muir rcm...@gmail.com wrote: Is this a typo or intended to be iff (if and only if)? On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 8:50 AM, m...@apache.org wrote: Author: mvg

Re: svn commit: r1304320 - /lucene/dev/trunk/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/IndexWriter.java

2012-03-23 Thread Yonik Seeley
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 8:57 AM, Robert Muir rcm...@gmail.com wrote: Is this a typo or intended to be iff (if and only if)? While it may not have been a typo, it was redundant/overkill (as it is for most uses in Lucene). -Yonik lucenerevolution.com - Lucene/Solr Open Source Search Conference.

Re: svn commit: r1304320 - /lucene/dev/trunk/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/IndexWriter.java

2012-03-23 Thread Robert Muir
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. On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 9:04 AM, Yonik Seeley yo...@lucidimagination.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 8:57 AM, Robert

Re: svn commit: r1304320 - /lucene/dev/trunk/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/IndexWriter.java

2012-03-23 Thread Martijn v Groningen
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

Re: svn commit: r1304320 - /lucene/dev/trunk/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/IndexWriter.java

2012-03-23 Thread Robert Muir
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

Re: svn commit: r1304320 - /lucene/dev/trunk/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/IndexWriter.java

2012-03-23 Thread Martijn v Groningen
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

Re: svn commit: r1304320 - /lucene/dev/trunk/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/IndexWriter.java

2012-03-23 Thread Erick Erickson
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

Re: svn commit: r1304320 - /lucene/dev/trunk/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/IndexWriter.java

2012-03-23 Thread Martijn v Groningen
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

Re: svn commit: r1304320 - /lucene/dev/trunk/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/IndexWriter.java

2012-03-23 Thread Dawid Weiss
iff is academic jargon. Let's be explicit. Dawid On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 2:46 PM, Erick Erickson erickerick...@gmail.com 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