From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tom Rauchenwald Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: canonical name ending "-p" Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 19:20:23 +0100 Organization: modprobe.de Message-ID: <877hbw9tp4.fsf@sec.modprobe.de> References: <4D8398DF.6030709@mousecar.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1300472515 19912 80.91.229.12 (18 Mar 2011 18:21:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 18:21:55 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 18 19:21:51 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q0eJ4-0004HW-Sq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 19:21:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42324 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q0eJ2-0003jF-B7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 14:21:48 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=48389 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q0eIK-0003ij-6D for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 14:21:05 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q0eIH-0002eB-AO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 14:21:03 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:37937) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q0eIH-0002dn-4a for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 14:21:01 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q0eIC-0003iP-RJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 19:20:56 +0100 Original-Received: from 178.115.245.181.wireless.dyn.drei.com ([178.115.245.181]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 19:20:56 +0100 Original-Received: from sehnsucht.nach.unendlichkeit by 178.115.245.181.wireless.dyn.drei.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 19:20:56 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 178.115.245.181.wireless.dyn.drei.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:yl47QA4l+8MBxEesomwKUA5Kbbo= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:80236 Archived-At: ken writes: > Lots of things in elisp end in "-p"... is there some particular meaning > in this? It means predicate. Functions ending in -p return either t or nil, and variables ending in -p contain either t or nil. -tom -- Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. -- Pablo Picasso