Thanks for the follow-up, Mark. On Thu 15 Dec 2011 05:27, Mark H Weaver <[email protected]> writes:
> 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. 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 -- http://wingolog.org/
