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Re: no empty (zero) string predicate in Elisp
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Marcin Borkowski |
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Re: no empty (zero) string predicate in Elisp |
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Sun, 26 Apr 2015 20:59:09 +0200 |
On 2015-04-26, at 20:34, Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> wrote:
> Cool. "Predicate" is a word from the grammars of human
> languages, but I don't know its exact meaning, neither
> there or in programming languages (until now as for
> programming).
AFAIK, "predicate" is a word from /logic/, and it means (more or less)
a function which consumes one or more arguments of any type and gives
back a truth-value. (Not necesarily exactly that, because Russell's
paradox etc., but this is the idea.)
Best,
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University
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