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cas@social.treehouse.systems

caleb 🌈

do you use "iff" (academic shorthand for "if and only if") in technical discussions/git forges issues/whatever?

36% yes, i have used it before
34% no, i just thought it was a typo
28% no, but i knew about it
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epilys@chaos.social

Manos Pitsidianakis

Reply to @cas@social.treehouse.systems

@cas I have, and those polls results make me feel self-conscious now :|

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cas@social.treehouse.systems

caleb 🌈

Reply to @epilys@chaos.social

@epilys i always got the feeling people didn't know about it. x3 don't worry this poll is just a secret ploy to tell more people about it.

using iff is honestly so useful and imho it should be much more popular in FOSS lingo

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epilys@chaos.social

Manos Pitsidianakis

Reply to @cas@social.treehouse.systems

@cas it should be iff it's used in math/algorithmic context /s

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cas@social.treehouse.systems

caleb 🌈

Reply to @epilys@chaos.social

@epilys i use it when describing implementation details a lot , not usually math-y ones though

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conor

Conor Dooley

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@cas I started using it cos others did, but I think I don't as much any more. Writing something in "natural language" or w/e you wanna call it is barely more effort and less likely to be misunderstood.
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