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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