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Re: is_predicate_p?
- From: dewar at gnat dot com (Robert Dewar)
- To: dewar at gnat dot com, kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2002 06:48:04 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: is_predicate_p?
> 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.
OK, if this is a well established and well used convention, that's reasonable,
but I still find it odd to use a Hungarian-like convention like this and not
enforce it.