From: Paul <paul@paulwmorris.com>
To: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ?-suffix for booleans... good-idea? or bad-idea?
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2017 12:21:19 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <42611da6-adb0-d9b1-c698-a7b9aad12f73@paulwmorris.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ccb1d875-3db2-4c79-9c28-ca50a84e6546@email.android.com>
On 04/25/2017 11:50 AM, Jan Wedekind wrote:
> What do people think? I'm struggling with deciding what's the right
> thing for my own code, but leaning towards "we shouldn't use the ?
> suffix for just boolean values".
I like using the '?' suffix only for predicates. I often use 'is-'
prefix for boolean values, which reads well: (if is-raining ...)
-Paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-04-25 16:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-24 17:01 ?-suffix for booleans... good-idea? or bad-idea? Christopher Allan Webber
2017-04-25 3:43 ` Alex Vong
2017-04-25 15:50 ` Jan Wedekind
2017-04-25 16:21 ` Paul [this message]
2017-04-26 15:25 ` Alex Kost
2017-04-25 18:08 ` Neil Jerram
2017-04-25 16:53 ` Panicz Maciej Godek
2017-04-26 0:23 ` Thompson, David
2017-04-27 10:39 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2017-04-27 10:53 ` Panicz Maciej Godek
2017-04-27 12:07 ` Marko Rauhamaa
2017-05-05 17:26 ` Vladimir Zhbanov
2017-05-05 19:44 ` szgyg
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