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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: 26564@debbugs.gnu.org, larsi@gnus.org, kaushal.modi@gmail.com
Subject: bug#26564: Document that only functions and not variables can end with "-p"
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2019 02:22:42 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <73e7bcd4-768a-4ac6-8a41-6fa1acf55c76@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1iJpVK-0004Uh-Rd@fencepost.gnu.org>

> -p is used in function names.
> For a variable, it is better to end in -flag.

`-flag' has been used only, AFAIK, for user options.

---

What I use, FWIW:

* `-flag' for user options.  (I'm about the only
one who does this anymore, it seems.)

* `-p' for non-option variables whose values
  are used just as Booleans (`nil', non-`nil').

* No suffix for non-option variables whose values
  are used other than just as Booleans (`nil',
  non-`nil').





  reply	other threads:[~2019-10-14  2:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-19 15:47 bug#26564: Document that only functions and not variables can end with "-p" Kaushal Modi
2017-04-19 16:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-04-19 16:22   ` Kaushal Modi
2017-04-19 21:49     ` Michael Heerdegen
2017-04-19 22:04       ` Drew Adams
2017-04-19 22:18         ` Michael Heerdegen
2019-10-12 20:27     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-12 20:47       ` Kaushal Modi
2019-10-12 23:18       ` Drew Adams
2019-10-14  1:50         ` Richard Stallman
2019-10-14  2:22           ` Drew Adams [this message]
2019-10-14  7:24             ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-14  7:21           ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-04-19 17:26 ` Drew Adams
2017-04-19 21:44   ` Michael Heerdegen
2017-04-19 22:01     ` Drew Adams
2017-04-19 22:23       ` Michael Heerdegen
2017-04-19 22:28         ` Drew Adams
2017-04-20  1:42           ` Drew Adams

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