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Re: canonical name ending "-p"


From: Allan Gottlieb
Subject: Re: canonical name ending "-p"
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 14:11:44 -0400

From: ken <gebser@mousecar.com>
Date: Friday, March 18, 2011 1:39 pm

> Lots of things in elisp end in "-p"... is there some particular meaning
>  in this?

Yes.  I believe it stands for "predicate".  It is a boolean.  So active-p
would be true if the item in question was "active".

allan
  



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