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


From: Kim F. Storm
Subject: Re: miss spell in `accept-process-output' doc string
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 22:07:40 +0200
User-agent: 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





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