Timeline for Using "iff" in documentation
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| Nov 20, 2024 at 17:33 | comment | added | MisterMiyagi | @candied_orange I removed the arguing since it was a tangent to comments, not the answer. I’m not in support of this answer because it’s main message, that it’s not hard to look something up and thus doesn’t need explaining, doesn’t apply to the expression under discussion - the bare "iff". If you want to improve it, changing the suggested method (spelling "iff" out once to make it searchable via the expanded term) to something that doesn’t require a specific reading order would be good. | |
| Nov 20, 2024 at 16:21 | comment | added | candied_orange | @MisterMiyagi I can’t tell if you’re arguing in support of the answer or that it needs an improvement. The problem with a bare iff is the same problem with byob. If you never define it then all people can do is guess. | |
| Nov 19, 2024 at 18:41 | comment | added | shoover | @MisterMiyagi The meaning was given in the OP. | |
| Nov 19, 2024 at 17:58 | comment | added | shoover | @MisterMiyagi I used a different searching technique with a much more successful outcome. I went to the Internet Archive and searched for "iff" and "if and only if" in the text contents of documents with media type "text." | |
| Nov 19, 2024 at 7:00 | comment | added | MisterMiyagi | FWIW, I tried looking"iff" up for fun and it took me quite a while to realise my input had been automatically changed to "if". After correcting it, google brought up a flower shop and research institute. Then I gave up. | |
| Nov 19, 2024 at 3:36 | comment | added | Miss Understands | @MetalMikester Meanwhile, all the other readers would think it's a typo. And then later in the text, they become very confused.. That's not good writing. Write for your audience. | |
| Nov 18, 2024 at 20:38 | history | edited | candied_orange | CC BY-SA 4.0 | deleted 4 characters in body |
| Nov 18, 2024 at 13:44 | history | edited | candied_orange | CC BY-SA 4.0 | added 41 characters in body |
| Nov 18, 2024 at 12:40 | comment | added | gnasher729 | @MetalMikester In that case you would ask and you would learn something. | |
| Nov 18, 2024 at 11:04 | comment | added | candied_orange | @MetalMikester better now? | |
| Nov 18, 2024 at 11:03 | history | edited | candied_orange | CC BY-SA 4.0 | added 161 characters in body |
| Nov 18, 2024 at 10:46 | comment | added | MetalMikester | While it's true that it's not hard to look something up, when reading I don't want to spend my time looking stuff up on Google. In this specific case, seeing "iff" I'd be more inclined to think it's a typo. | |
| Nov 18, 2024 at 9:03 | history | answered | candied_orange | CC BY-SA 4.0 |