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?). > > > > 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' in text, and I am leaving it as it is in logical formulae. > > Hell no. If you want to avoid the usage in your own docs please go for > it, but as seen in your patch we commonly use The usage of 'iff' is as common as the usage of 'if and only if' > and that is a good thing > as it brings the information across in a very compact way. It is not a piece of code that has to run on an embedded system and it needs to be compact. It is a piece of text that people must understand. Generally speaking compactness does not bring any value if then the text is unclear or open to interpretation.
