From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#26564: Document that only functions and not variables can end with "-p" Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2017 23:44:12 +0200 Message-ID: <87h91kdqdv.fsf@drachen> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1492638317 15233 195.159.176.226 (19 Apr 2017 21:45:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2017 21:45:17 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: 26564@debbugs.gnu.org, Kaushal Modi To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 19 23:45:11 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@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 1d0xPS-0003oR-Np for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Apr 2017 23:45:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50635 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d0xPY-0007rR-IZ for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Apr 2017 17:45:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60189) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d0xPO-0007mq-Tq for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Apr 2017 17:45:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d0xPL-0000iu-1Q for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Apr 2017 17:45:06 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:59316) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d0xPK-0000id-UA for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Apr 2017 17:45:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1d0xPK-0007g4-GQ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Apr 2017 17:45:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Michael Heerdegen Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2017 21:45:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 26564 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 26564-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B26564.149263826029445 (code B ref 26564); Wed, 19 Apr 2017 21:45:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 26564) by debbugs.gnu.org; 19 Apr 2017 21:44:20 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57515 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1d0xOd-0007er-V8 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 19 Apr 2017 17:44:20 -0400 Original-Received: from mout.web.de ([212.227.15.14]:61830) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1d0xOb-0007eZ-Tz for 26564@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 19 Apr 2017 17:44:18 -0400 Original-Received: from drachen.dragon ([94.216.184.104]) by smtp.web.de (mrweb001 [213.165.67.108]) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0Le4fk-1cFXHm1C6W-00pxW6; Wed, 19 Apr 2017 23:44:06 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Drew Adams's message of "Wed, 19 Apr 2017 10:26:53 -0700 (PDT)") X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:nfRYZl0fMvRkox3KS4W+D85e1eWOqUat+52+zcP3JoeERpYWkXk kvpFkl6rTe6j0mHR66Bom5lDD8gUnLP1IkBRQm+CzGBJbbeI10xJW2JCowXYJlE98foKwbL vvXdiYtO6yIIIpC9Od4NIMRdQwMYuHXjI8knEP2qkAmUe+4WrzXeuFDt5K+yE89TrU49fNP W4r34M9AqwhqbKhylg9OQ== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:A9slH9I7obE=:wvIXjgGWhwoC51jI/foOTa G7xd2FksuAsA0Oqi3AMpI/+TyWNO/Tk2VruABC6BWxt9IYvOtQJgwctRMMQYP5pAfQeG4y2Hg Z5mscczAIEowl5Wo5NXu5kbSkgbhOcE+LD6UBO+7UF5wtOQUAz0fmeHtXAwAEp72sOUWS3K88 xW8EzY9975ggb61xLbJ4YjZEFs7Tx/lNCaxs0nrrvu8utnXh+8Ag8bwaoIMlVncOF7C93PVpW ZAx/UIFnGukToVU2a1oUMc0i7Q5ldhNXQNNYLY+s0rbJbVmsr9e+qngKNgZnNWFDS+IsvSb/w jdIMX7jRWEUyfRLOj1C4jZrttbj4Ty8BDwqa1g2eOKeAbMfn7ZcWL3SKL9oubhmvW8Le+TjK6 Hblal7Rvj4aR+3hxpX+JqmBD0fhvGnyQftr0CaG0NxFgVJgi+aU/xlvOC26K2N20yAW+AOvpe iLZcxMoe5IG8GPpxlJH1nDTiUcslJOxzv0h/3qdn5dvyHRwfjbScD5zCQ199GlhW0hvOLPuLC p4BusAsx9H0cT7o3tsf0ndJ7UkCzUfQUACD4kAcXzlc0TquQrP7RKe9Ni8hkxLYoXqfv7VywW OV/V3uvQTQqA4Smgj/oCLKrp33HSQzkOEDz/Q+wFhY+0vSs+nHDNtFIg7c/HWChGdyUFF0KiW r5TYecCyMRvuFttj76ezHp+GuS8gndI3l7VidShiCjGZPveb802El9+pYhOfD0X15I7ywORJn 9yiDYweG1DU4ypYAuQXs58TQvDE5ntH4IW3Yp4knNIqZKo+QEqJrQYwdBGV1TO2F1UogA8JP X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:131771 Archived-At: Drew Adams writes: > 3. Is there a proposal for a _different_ naming convention > for Boolean variables? I'd argue that we should have some > such a naming convention. And I'd argue that it should be > different for options and non-option variables. That's a good point indeed. An alternative to "-p" would be "is-", like `foo-is-negative'. Not using -p would also have an advantage: you could distinguish boolean variables from variables bound to a predicate function. Michael.