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Re: How to test if the current line contains only white-spache?


From: Emanuel Berg
Subject: Re: How to test if the current line contains only white-spache?
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 03:18:28 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux)

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> Btw, what should this -p naming convention signal
>> to me?
>
> That it's a "p"redicate.

Here [1] it says

    A predicate is a function that tests for some
    condition involving its arguments and returns nil
    if the condition is false, or some non-nil value
    if the condition is true.

[1] https://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/html/cltl/clm/node69.html

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