Now that I think about it, I realize that many Emacs users have not studied
the advanced mathematics where they would encounter the term iff.
So I think it is better to avoid that term.
(I was the one who introduced it into Emacs doc strings.)
I have added this to TODO for fixing post-22
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 10:46:04 +0200 martin rudalics [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Now that I think about it, I realize that many Emacs users have not studied
the advanced mathematics where they would encounter the term iff.
So I think it is better to avoid that term.
(I was the one who introduced it
I added `iff' to the Glossary.
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The iff idiom is sufficiently common that we don't want to shy away
from it just at this one place. So either we rule it out everywhere, or we
use it liberally.
Now that I think about it, I realize that many Emacs users have not studied
the advanced mathematics where they would
Richard Matthew Stallman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The iff idiom is sufficiently common that we don't want to shy away
from it just at this one place. So either we rule it out everywhere, or
we
use it liberally.
Now that I think about it, I realize that many Emacs users have
iff stands for if and only if but maybe
Return non-nil if and only if we received output before the timeout expired.
would be more comprehensible.
The iff idiom is sufficiently common that we don't want to shy away
from it just at this one place. So either we rule it out everywhere, or we
use
Stefan Monnier wrote:
The iff idiom is sufficiently common that we don't want to shy
away from it just at this one place. So either we rule it out
everywhere, or we use it liberally.
Sufficiently common in Emacs (~ 600 instances); I've never seen it
anywhere else as far as I remember. All it
Glenn Morris wrote:
Stefan Monnier wrote:
The iff idiom is sufficiently common that we don't want to shy
away from it just at this one place. So either we rule it out
everywhere, or we use it liberally.
Sufficiently common in Emacs (~ 600 instances); I've never seen it
anywhere else as far
The iff idiom is sufficiently common that we don't want to shy
away from it just at this one place. So either we rule it out
everywhere, or we use it liberally.
Sufficiently common in Emacs (~ 600 instances); I've never seen it
anywhere else as far as I remember.
AFAIK it's pretty standard
