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| From: | Tom Rauchenwald |
| Subject: | Re: canonical name ending "-p" |
| Date: | Fri, 18 Mar 2011 19:20:23 +0100 |
| User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
ken <gebser@mousecar.com> writes:
> Lots of things in elisp end in "-p"... is there some particular meaning
> in this?
It means predicate. Functions ending in -p return either t or nil, and
variables ending in -p contain either t or nil.
-tom
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