From: Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: The function naming convention used by Emacs.
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2021 19:50:36 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGP6POJ9FPBE5QWpixU=bdyNJoN24DbDxX6761cL9uxezdMuag@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YVBZCeFsllXi1qku@scrozzle>
On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 7:27 PM <2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE@potatochowder.com> wrote:
[...]
> The -p suffix is short for "predicate"; so file-exists-p is true if and
> only if the argument names and existing file. I learned of that
> convention from Common Lisp; I don't know the entire history.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge with me.
HZ
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2021-09-26 11:05 The function naming convention used by Emacs Hongyi Zhao
2021-09-26 11:27 ` 2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE
2021-09-26 11:49 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-09-26 11:50 ` Hongyi Zhao [this message]
2021-09-26 11:48 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-09-26 12:18 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-09-26 13:34 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-09-26 17:04 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-09-27 5:46 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-09-27 14:53 ` Drew Adams
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2021-09-26 13:32 Pierpaolo Bernardi
2021-09-26 13:35 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
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