From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com>
Cc: 26564@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#26564: Document that only functions and not variables can end with "-p"
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2017 23:49:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d1c8dq5f.fsf@drachen> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFyQvY3KMin5sLs_7=zG=yyzc16Nw8viRwKC84M8x=8T_hvqGQ@mail.gmail.com> (Kaushal Modi's message of "Wed, 19 Apr 2017 16:22:39 +0000")
Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com> writes:
> -Examples are @code{framep} and @code{frame-live-p}.
> +Examples are @code{framep} and @code{frame-live-p}. This predicate
> +suffix should not be used in variable names (i.e., you might name a
> +variable @code{foo-feature} instead of @code{foo-feature-p}).
I think we should not discourage naming variables bound to a predicate
"-p". I guess you only mean "boolean variables" here?
Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-04-19 21:49 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 [this message]
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
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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