Re: [PATCH] Fix documentation typos

["alice" <alice@ayaya.dev>]

On Sat Jan 7, 2023 at 9:34 AM CET, Steve Litt wrote:
> 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".

as a passerby (and professional bike-shed designer), i would agree that is the
best solution. this isn't really a mathematical context, and it also has the
bonus of not looking like "domain-specific jargon" one can look up; an extra
letter merely looks like a typo to those that don't already know.

>
> SteveT
>
> Steve Litt 
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