is_predicate_p?
Gabriel Dos Reis
gdr@codesourcery.com
Sat Jun 8 08:36:00 GMT 2002
"Kaveh R. Ghazi" <ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu> writes:
| > From: Jason Merrill <jason@redhat.com>
| >
| > 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?
| > Jason
|
| Probably, care to suggest one?
All but the _p thingy seems a bit intriguing to me (although I know
where ot comes from -- I just believe that we shouldn't be insisting
to write LISP in C :-\)
| FWIW, I also think we should standardize on all of them returning
| bool.
I think that was agreed upon, in past discussions.
-- Gaby
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