From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>,
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: Sat, 12 Oct 2019 23:18:40 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20e6d9e7-fa6e-4a6f-8aea-7fb5cd4f91e3@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d0f1k8uy.fsf@gnus.org>
> +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}).
FWIW, I disagree with this new "convention".
1. There's no need for it. What does it protect?
2. And using suffix `-p' can make clear the meaning
and use of a variable, regardless of whether it's
a formal parameter, a defvar, or a let variable.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-12 23:18 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 [this message]
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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