Re: [PATCH] doc: replace IFF abbreviation with 'if and only if'

2019-09-11 Thread Joe Perches
On Tue, 2019-09-10 at 15:17 +0200, Federico Vaga wrote: > Generally speaking compactness does not bring any value if then the text is > unclear or open to interpretation. It's somewhat difficult to choose between +1 and I agree.

Re: [PATCH] doc: replace IFF abbreviation with 'if and only if'

2019-09-10 Thread Federico Vaga
On Tuesday, September 10, 2019 8:35:10 AM CEST Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Sat, Sep 07, 2019 at 12:51:16PM +0200, Federico Vaga wrote: > > In a normal piece of text the use of 'iff' does not guarantee a correct > > interpretation because it is easy to confuse it for a typo (if or iff?). > > > >

Re: [PATCH] doc: replace IFF abbreviation with 'if and only if'

2019-09-09 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sat, Sep 07, 2019 at 12:51:16PM +0200, Federico Vaga wrote: > In a normal piece of text the use of 'iff' does not guarantee a correct > interpretation because it is easy to confuse it for a typo (if or iff?). > > I believe that IFF should not be used outside a logical/mathematical > expression.

[PATCH] doc: replace IFF abbreviation with 'if and only if'

2019-09-07 Thread Federico Vaga
In a normal piece of text the use of 'iff' does not guarantee a correct interpretation because it is easy to confuse it for a typo (if or iff?). I believe that IFF should not be used outside a logical/mathematical expression. For this reason with this patch I am replacing 'iff' with 'if an only if