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Re: is_predicate_p?
- From: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at codesourcery dot com>
- To: kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu (Richard Kenner)
- Cc: dewar at gnat dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: 08 Jun 2002 12:40:06 +0200
- Subject: Re: is_predicate_p?
- Organization: CodeSourcery, LLC
- References: <10206081034.AA20349@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu>
kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner) writes:
| I would have guidelines rather than a standard here. I would avoid the
| use of _p unless you do decide to standardize on this (which seems
| very dubious to me). The use of _p is simply not intuitive.
|
| Perhaps, but it was the earliest conventions used in GCC to distinguish
| predicates (where the term doesn't have the technical MD file meaning), so
| most follow this "rule". This is from LISP conventions and RMS was the
| origin of its use.
Writing LISP in C always seems to me to be an intriguing idea 8-\
-- Gaby