[libvirt] [PATCH] uitl: use "if and only if" instead of "iff" in some comments

Eric Blake eblake at redhat.com
Tue Oct 28 14:17:09 UTC 2014


On 10/28/2014 08:00 AM, Shanzhi Yu wrote:
>>From wiki "In writing, phrases commonly used, with debatable propriety.
> In logic formulae, logical symbols are used instead of these phrases"
> In some comments, we use "if and only if", so instead the logical sysbols
> with phrases in case someone mistaking it as a wrong spelling of "if"

I don't buy it.  It's not worth applying, in my mind.

Furthermore, any patch that tries to fix "typos" while itself having a
typo (s/uitl/util/ in the subject) is suspect.

NACK unless anyone else speaks up strongly in favor of it.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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