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Re: [PATCH]doco Manual Conventions
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Clinton Ebadi |
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Re: [PATCH]doco Manual Conventions |
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Wed, 19 Nov 2003 10:34:12 -0500 |
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On Tuesday 18 November 2003 17:51, Kevin Ryde wrote:
> Stephen Compall <address@hidden> writes:
> > * For some procedures, notably type predicates, we use "iff" to mean
> > "if and only if".
>
> I'd be tempted to reword everywhere iff occurs, it's a rather obscure
> abbreviation if you're not coming from a maths background.
I think that continuing to use iff is a good idea; its usage is explained in
the manual so it is no more obscure than `=>' or '-|' are.
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