From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tassilo Horn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Sorting buffer with string-collate-lessp Date: Tue, 26 May 2015 20:01:43 +0200 Message-ID: <87egm3qku0.fsf@gnu.org> References: <871ti3uz81.fsf@debian.uxu> <87r3q3e43r.fsf@gmx.us> <87wpzvtjbc.fsf@debian.uxu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1432663339 5285 80.91.229.3 (26 May 2015 18:02:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 May 2015 18:02:19 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 26 20:02:08 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YxJAy-0001n1-KF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 May 2015 20:02:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49649 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YxJAx-00051j-QT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 May 2015 14:02:03 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37726) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YxJAk-00051e-7f for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 May 2015 14:01:51 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YxJAh-0005kj-Ij for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 May 2015 14:01:50 -0400 Original-Received: from out5-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.29]:39469) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YxJAh-0005kX-F4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 May 2015 14:01:47 -0400 Original-Received: from compute2.internal (compute2.nyi.internal [10.202.2.42]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D73520D08 for ; Tue, 26 May 2015 14:01:47 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from frontend2 ([10.202.2.161]) by compute2.internal (MEProxy); Tue, 26 May 2015 14:01:47 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=content-type:date:from:in-reply-to :message-id:mime-version:references:subject:to:x-sasl-enc :x-sasl-enc; s=smtpout; bh=eqogE2YocDffaas+ebfU0WEMjN0=; b=myQqi UyQZFacYoLeugnoAEx4CW4uk2UvcbVudNznszKPd2jmjGV4TCcZsHPxyFXGvbTRV K7i6EEFRdRBlAEpMbyveB68Zs0BtQJ0qcwPfk+BSybELTGlCck2DqAhLGhA39kUP /0bCc9K9eoPDPp1k6p33VA75xy4jkG8FB6YSeI= X-Sasl-enc: g0BGd/SSnFvdyKzlhClMjzW1aC11mH4ruxpctIIRxWOQ 1432663306 Original-Received: from thinkpad-t440p (unknown [2.160.192.232]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 7345D680090 for ; Tue, 26 May 2015 14:01:46 -0400 (EDT) Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <87wpzvtjbc.fsf@debian.uxu> (Emanuel Berg's message of "Tue, 26 May 2015 18:06:15 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.130014 (Ma Gnus v0.14) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 66.111.4.29 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:104589 Archived-At: Emanuel Berg writes: > Anyhow, that function name ends with a "p" so it is > a unary function which returns a boolean, I take it. No, the "p" just stands for predicate which only implies that it returns a generalized boolean. It still might have arbitrary arity, e.g., `buffer-narrowed-p' has zero arguments, `consp` has one argument, `string-lessp' has two arguments, etc. Bye, Tassilo