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


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: miss spell in `accept-process-output' doc string
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 10:54:02 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.94 (gnu/linux)

> "iff" stands for "if and only if" but maybe
> "Return non-nil if and only if we received output before the timeout expired."
> would be more comprehensible.

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.


        Stefan




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