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Re: canonical name ending "-p"
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Perry Smith |
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Re: canonical name ending "-p" |
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Fri, 18 Mar 2011 13:18:18 -0500 |
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