Hello Mark, Thanks for your explanation. I knew about the mathematical "if and only if". But as I am not a native english speaker I didn't know it could be spelled 'iff'.
Thanks again, Jean-christophe On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 5:27 AM, Mark H Weaver <[email protected]> wrote: > jc zulian <[email protected]> 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. > > I'm leaving this bug open as a reminder that occurrences of "iff" should > probably be changed to something else. > > Thanks for the report! > > Mark >
