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Re: miss spell in `accept-process-output' doc string
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Kim F. Storm |
Subject: |
Re: miss spell in `accept-process-output' doc string |
Date: |
Wed, 11 Apr 2007 22:07:40 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.97 (gnu/linux) |
Richard Matthew Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
> 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.
>
> Now that I think about it, I realize that many Emacs users have not studied
> the advanced mathematics where they would encounter the term "iff".
> So I think it is better to avoid that term.
>
> (I was the one who introduced it into Emacs doc strings.)
I have added this to TODO for fixing post-22 release.
** Avoid using "iff" in doc strings.
--
Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk
- miss spell in `accept-process-output' doc string, Tetsuo Tsukamoto, 2007/04/10
- Re: miss spell in `accept-process-output' doc string, martin rudalics, 2007/04/10
- Re: miss spell in `accept-process-output' doc string, Tetsuo Tsukamoto, 2007/04/10
- Re: miss spell in `accept-process-output' doc string, Stefan Monnier, 2007/04/10
- Re: miss spell in `accept-process-output' doc string, Richard Matthew Stallman, 2007/04/11
- Re: miss spell in `accept-process-output' doc string,
Kim F. Storm <=
- Re: miss spell in `accept-process-output' doc string, martin rudalics, 2007/04/12
- Re: miss spell in `accept-process-output' doc string, Stephen Berman, 2007/04/12
- Re: miss spell in `accept-process-output' doc string, Richard Stallman, 2007/04/12