Re: [PATCH] docstring changes

Ed Price wrote:
> "Iff" is a common abbreviation (math-ism?) for "if and only if".

I know that. I'm a mathematician by heart. But
linguistically, it just sounds so weird having Iff there.
I've seen P iff Q. But Iff P, Q is puzzling.

>
> So you might want to leave that one alone.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_and_only_if
> http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Iff.html

Yes, I realize that, but gstein did mention that an 'if' could
be placed there. In any event, I'm not sure 'iff' makes
sense at the beginning of those two statements when
everywhere else uses 'If'.

Anyway, I'm open for suggestions.

Edmund

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