From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: scroll-down with pixel transition Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2017 18:37:36 +0300 Message-ID: <834lxkcssf.fsf@gnu.org> References: <693E1D44-797B-4B0D-9D0B-6FEB6DF32531@misasa.okayama-u.ac.jp> <83lgqze7mq.fsf@gnu.org> <20170419.212155.180931830.tkk@misasa.okayama-u.ac.jp> <83a87ccv8s.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1492616269 31136 195.159.176.226 (19 Apr 2017 15:37:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2017 15:37:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: cpitclaudel@gmail.com, tkk@misasa.okayama-u.ac.jp, yuri.v.khan@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Kaushal Modi Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 19 17:37:37 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1d0rfj-0007oZ-0r for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Apr 2017 17:37:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48937 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d0rfo-0002gf-P4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Apr 2017 11:37:40 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59396) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d0rfF-0002gC-5e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Apr 2017 11:37:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d0rfE-0004B5-8Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Apr 2017 11:37:05 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:48589) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d0rf9-00048R-L7; Wed, 19 Apr 2017 11:36:59 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:1622 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1d0rf8-0001qk-QH; Wed, 19 Apr 2017 11:36:59 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Kaushal Modi on Wed, 19 Apr 2017 15:07:11 +0000) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:214129 Archived-At: > From: Kaushal Modi > Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2017 15:07:11 +0000 > Cc: tkk@misasa.okayama-u.ac.jp, cpitclaudel@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, > yuri.v.khan@gmail.com > > > I learnt recently that foo-p naming convention is only for predicate > > functions that return nil or non-nil. > > We have several dozen of variables in Emacs whose names end in "-p". > > It's just a convention, and it makes sense so I suggested that. IMO it's not a convention as long as we don't have it in the appropriate section of the ELisp manual. If we want to make it a convention, we should begin by documenting it. Otherwise we have no reason to expect contributors to discover such conventions and follow them.