GNU bug report logs - #10302
Some typos in web.texi documenation

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Package: guile;

Reported by: jc zulian <jeanchristophe.zulian <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:46:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Andy Wingo <wingo <at> pobox.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 10302 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org>
To: jc zulian <jeanchristophe.zulian <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 10302 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#10302: Some typos in web.texi documenation
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 23:27:16 -0500

jc zulian <jeanchristophe.zulian <at> gmail.com> 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
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