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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Naming predicates (was: master d0c77a1: Remove some assumptions about timestamp format)
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2018 14:06:07 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvsh1twldg.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.devel@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3356af4b-f6f5-e353-6162-a5fa8880d223@cs.ucla.edu

>> Shouldn't this be `time-equal-p', as we have already `time-less-p'?
> Thanks, as a Scheme refugee I never can remember which predicates should end
> in "-p" vs "p" vs nothing. I installed the attached.

The rule is not that bad: use a "-p or p" suffix whenever a Schemer
would use a "?" suffix.  As for when to use "-p" vs just "p" I'd say you
can simply always use "-p" when it's something you define.


        Stefan "who likes Scheme's ?, ->, and ! naming conventions"




  reply	other threads:[~2018-09-28 18:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20180925021527.10418.61555@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
     [not found] ` <20180925021528.9A119204E8@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
2018-09-25 10:09   ` master d0c77a1: Remove some assumptions about timestamp format Michael Albinus
2018-09-26  1:09     ` Paul Eggert
2018-09-26  9:24       ` Michael Albinus
2018-09-26  9:39         ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-26  9:43           ` Michael Albinus
2018-09-27 20:46         ` Paul Eggert
2018-09-28  6:32           ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-28 10:26             ` Michael Albinus
2018-09-28 17:27               ` Paul Eggert
2018-09-29 13:35                 ` Michael Albinus
2018-09-28 14:45             ` Paul Eggert
2018-09-28 14:54               ` Michael Albinus
2018-09-28  1:50         ` Paul Eggert
2018-09-28 10:35           ` Michael Albinus
2018-09-28 17:39             ` Paul Eggert
2018-09-28 18:06               ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2018-09-28 18:28                 ` Naming predicates (was: master d0c77a1: Remove some assumptions about timestamp format) Drew Adams
2018-09-28 19:12                   ` Paul Eggert
2018-09-28 19:26                     ` Naming predicates Stefan Monnier
2018-09-28 19:40                       ` Drew Adams
2018-09-28 19:41                     ` Naming predicates (was: master d0c77a1: Remove some assumptions about timestamp format) Drew Adams

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