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Re: The function naming convention used by Emacs.


From: Hongyi Zhao
Subject: Re: The function naming convention used by Emacs.
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2021 19:50:36 +0800

On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 7:27 PM <2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE@potatochowder.com> wrote:
[...]
> The -p suffix is short for "predicate"; so file-exists-p is true if and
> only if the argument names and existing file.  I learned of that
> convention from Common Lisp; I don't know the entire history.

Thank you for sharing your knowledge with me.

HZ



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