From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: quimby.gnus.org!not-for-mail From: "Stefan Monnier" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Non-blocking open-network-stream Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 11:04:19 -0500 Message-ID: <200202221604.g1MG4Jd30219@rum.cs.yale.edu> References: <5xwux64cxe.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: quimby2.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: quimby2.netfonds.no 1014394084 4181 195.204.10.66 (22 Feb 2002 16:08:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby2.netfonds.no NNTP-Posting-Date: 22 Feb 2002 16:08:04 GMT Cc: Helmut Eller , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby2.netfonds.no with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16eIEu-00015L-00 for ; Fri, 22 Feb 2002 17:08:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16eID8-00068Q-00; Fri, 22 Feb 2002 11:06:14 -0500 Original-Received: from rum.cs.yale.edu ([128.36.229.169]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16eIBN-00060K-00 for ; Fri, 22 Feb 2002 11:04:25 -0500 Original-Received: (from monnier@localhost) by rum.cs.yale.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1MG4Jd30219; Fri, 22 Feb 2002 11:04:19 -0500 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.4 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 Original-To: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.5 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: quimby.gnus.org gmane.emacs.devel:1425 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:1425 > > > ! non_blocking = (NILP (non_blocking) ? Qnil : Qt); > > > ! #ifdef NON_BLOCKING_CONNECT > > > ! is_non_blocking = !NILP (non_blocking); > > > ! #else > > > ! is_non_blocking = 0; > > > ! #endif > > > > Wouldn't non_blocking_p be a more lispy name? :-) > Yes - but is_non_blocking is not a lisp object :-) Actually the answer was `no'. The `p' postfix stands for `predicate'. A predicate is not a mere boolean value but a function that returns a boolean. Stefan _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel