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From: Steve Litt <slitt@troubleshooters.com>
To: supervision@list.skarnet.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix documentation typos
Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2023 03:34:34 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230107033434.538134a1@mydesk.domain.cxm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <emb274ff02-7251-4ec6-b4ad-4303acaee6a8@fc934038.com>

Laurent Bercot said on Fri, 06 Jan 2023 11:58:55 +0000

>>-file named <tt>S6_FDHOLDER_STORE_REGEX</tt> is found is the
>><tt>env/</tt> +file named <tt>S6_FDHOLDER_STORE_REGEX</tt> is found
>>in the <tt>env/</tt>  
>
>  Applied, thanks.
>
>
>>-service readiness, you should give this option along with
>><tt>up</tt>: the service is ready iff +service readiness, you should
>>give this option along with <tt>up</tt>: the service is ready if  
>
>  Not a typo. "iff" means "if and only if", as any mathematician will
>tell you. :)

I'm not a mathematician, even though once upon a time I could do
partial differential equations. I didn't know iff meant "if and only
if". Just so everyone's on the same page, probably the easiest route to
docs everyone understands is to replace iff with "if and only if".

SteveT

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  reply	other threads:[~2023-01-07  8:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20230106114736.2650132-1-christian@hohnstaedt.de>
2023-01-06 11:58 ` Laurent Bercot
2023-01-07  8:34   ` Steve Litt [this message]
2023-01-07  9:01     ` alice

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