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Re: iff?


From: Rob Browning
Subject: Re: iff?
Date: 24 Apr 2001 12:20:35 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7

Jim Blandy <address@hidden> writes:

> In Emacs, the first line of any docstring is supposed to be a
> self-contained summary of the function's behavior.  The `apropos'
> commands take advantage of this, and show you the first line of each
> matching command/function/variable's docstring.  The appeal of `iff'
> is that it is somewhat briefer, which sometimes allowed me to fit a
> better description into that first line.

And that may be a property worth trying to preserve.  What about
something like

  (foo x) returns true if x is foo-like, #f otherwise.

-- 
Rob Browning <address@hidden> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930



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