On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 2:29 PM, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 04:48:35PM +1300, Gavin Flower wrote:
>> On 28/01/14 16:33, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>> >On 01/27/2014 10:24 PM, Sawada Masahiko wrote:
>> >>Hi all,
>> >>
>> >>Attached patch fixes the typo which is in
>> >>"src/backend/command/cluster.c".
>> >
>> >Are you sure that's a typo? "iff" is usually short hand for "if
>> >and only if".
>> >
>> >cheers
>> >
>> >andrew
>> >
>> >
>> Certainly, that is how I would interpret it.
>>
>> I came across that abbreviation in a first years Maths course
>> "Principles of Mathematics" in 1968 at the University of Auckland..
>
> By my rough count (ack -l '\biff\b' |wc -l), it's used to mean
> equivalence 81 times in the source tree. Should we have a glossary of
> such terms?
And what about directly replacing those expressions in the comments of
the code with some more understandable language? This would be more
suited for non-native English speakers than maintaining a glossary
that you can surely find here and there after some googling.
--
Michael