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bug#10302: Some typos in web.texi documenation
From: |
Andy Wingo |
Subject: |
bug#10302: Some typos in web.texi documenation |
Date: |
Thu, 15 Dec 2011 15:19:19 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) |
Thanks for the follow-up, Mark.
On Thu 15 Dec 2011 05:27, Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> writes:
> jc zulian <address@hidden> writes:
>> While reading the documentation I came across some typos. Please find
>> attached a patch to correct those (I hope the patch format is
>> alright).
>
> Actually those are not typos. In mathematics, "iff" is widely
> understand to mean "if and only if".
>
> I guess this brings up a good point though: We should not assume that
> readers of the Guile manual are familiar with this terminology.
Indeed, the intro notes this:
http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Typographical-Conventions.html
> I'm leaving this bug open as a reminder that occurrences of "iff" should
> probably be changed to something else.
I wonder, it might be the right thing just to change them all to "if".
WDYT?
Andy
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