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RE: typo in accept-process-output (process.c)


From: Drew Adams
Subject: RE: typo in accept-process-output (process.c)
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 17:21:33 -0700

> > Also, the Emacs user community includes mostly developers so 
> > far, and many of them produce software, specs, and documentation
> > that are aimed at other developers. My guess is that many
> > (most?) Emacs users will already be
> > familiar with "iff", but I could be wrong about that.
> 
> Many may be familiar, but many are also not familiar, even developers. I
> had never encountered the term until the original bug report a few
> months ago. I suspect it is seldom encountered outside of the field of
> computer science and certain branches of mathematics and philosophy.

All the more reason to use "if and only if" rather than "iff".




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