From: Perry Smith <pedzsan@gmail.com>
To: gebser@mousecar.com
Cc: GNU Emacs List <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: canonical name ending "-p"
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 13:18:18 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E7907DCE-F47F-478C-8106-8E7A8929A2EC@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D8398DF.6030709@mousecar.com>
On Mar 18, 2011, at 12:39 PM, ken wrote:
> Lots of things in elisp end in "-p"... is there some particular meaning
> in this?
I was told it means "predicate" long ago by the guy who introduced me to lisp and emacs. In Ruby, they use a '?' so they have 'blank?' -- but '?' isn't a legal character in a symbol so they append "p" for predicate.
I'm curious if I have this right or not...
pedz
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-18 18:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-18 17:39 canonical name ending "-p" ken
2011-03-18 18:11 ` Allan Gottlieb
2011-03-18 18:18 ` Perry Smith [this message]
2011-03-18 18:31 ` Drew Adams
2011-03-18 18:20 ` Tom Rauchenwald
2011-03-18 18:31 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.12.1300472466.7441.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-03-19 1:52 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] <mailman.8.1300470004.7441.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-03-18 17:56 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2011-03-18 20:36 ` Evans Winner
2011-03-19 4:32 ` rusi
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