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Tomas Hlavaty <tom@logand.com> writes:

> a test predicate usually takes at least one argument

I do not speak about tests involving an argument but rather things like
`something-is-the-case-but-it-takes-long-to-find-out-p' that are often
comfortably defined as a thunk if the result may matter at several
places.

Michael.