“…The well-known Banach's contraction mapping principle asserts that if X with a metric d is complete and if F is a ¿-contraction, i.e., there exists X E [0,1) (B) such that d(T(x), T(y)) < Xd(x,y) for all x, y E X, then T has a unique fixed point in X which can be realized as the limit of the Picard iterates {T"(x)} for each x in X. An extension of the principle to the general setting for X a Hausdorff uniform space has been recently given by Tan [10,Theorem 2.3] and by Tarafdar [11,Theorem 1.1]. On the other hand, in the metric space setting, many authors have obtained the same conclusions or parts of the conclusions under various conditions which are somehow weaker than condition (B).…”