Re: miss spell in `accept-process-output' doc string

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

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 as I remember. All it does is save some typing at
> the expense of confusing people from time to time. Personally, I think
> it should not be used.


I believe it is understandable to people used to math and logics, but 
the very bad thing about it is that in the context of more normal 
English text (like a doc string) it may very well be taken for a 
misspelling of "if".