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Re: is_predicate_p?
- From: dewar at gnat dot com (Robert Dewar)
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, jason at redhat dot com
- Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2002 06:19:01 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: is_predicate_p?
> Predicates in GCC come in a wide variety of spellings. Some end in _p,
> some start with is_, some have _is_ in the middle, some just expect you to
> know they're predicates based on the meaning of the name. Should we set
> some sort of standard spelling for future additions?
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. All the other three cases
sound plausible to me, and I would hesitate to mandate any one over the others.