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From: | Stefan Monnier |
Subject: | Re: miss spell in `accept-process-output' doc string |
Date: | Tue, 10 Apr 2007 22:12:01 -0400 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.96 (gnu/linux) |
>> 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 in math and logic. In French we similarly use "ssi" for "si et seulement si". Stefan
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