Re: Typos in the code and README

On Fri, Apr 12, 2024 at 04:55:16PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 03:37:00PM +0200, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
> >     On 11 Apr 2024, at 15:29, David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> >     On Fri, 12 Apr 2024, 1:05 am Daniel Gustafsson, <daniel@yesql.se> wrote:
> > 
> >         Now that the tree has settled down a bit post-freeze I ran some tooling
> >         to
> >         check spelling.  I was primarily interested in docs and README* which
> >         were
> >         mostly free from simply typos, while the code had some in various
> >         comments and
> >         one in code.  The attached fixes all that I came across (not
> >         cross-referenced
> >         against ongoing reverts or any other fixup threads but will be before
> >         pushing
> >         of course).
> > 
> > 
> >     I see you've corrected "iif" to "if". It should be "iff".
> > 
> > 
> > Gotcha, will fix.  I opted for "if" due to recent threads where the use of
> > "iff" was discouraged due to not being commonly known, but that was in doc/ and
> > not code comments.
> 
> I actually agree "iff" is just not clear enough.  "Iff" stands for "if
> and only if" and maybe should be spelled out that way.

Just to clarify, I think "if and only if" means "if A then B" and B can
only happen if A happens, meaning there are not other cases where B can
happen.  This latter part is what disinguishes "iff" from "if".

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