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24.5; (elisp) `Type Predicates': Repeat the rule from `Coding Conventions'

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Subject: bug#22748: closed (Re: bug#22748: 24.5; (elisp) `Type
 Predicates': Repeat the rule from `Coding Conventions')
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2016 18:53:02 +0000

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Your bug report

#22748: 24.5; (elisp) `Type Predicates': Repeat the rule from `Coding Conventions'

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 22748-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#22748: 24.5;
 (elisp) `Type Predicates': Repeat the rule from `Coding Conventions'
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2016 20:52:03 +0200

> Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2016 10:23:32 -0800 (PST)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
> 
> (elisp) `Coding Conventions' makes clear that a predicate name that has
> multiple words should end in `-p', not just `p'.  This should also be
> made clear in node `Type Predicates', which currently says only this
> about the naming:
> 
>   Following a general Lisp convention for predicate functions, most type
>   predicates=A1=AF names end with =A1=AEp=A1=AF.
> 
> And that node should have a cross reference to node `Coding
> Conventions', which details the "general Lisp convention for predicate
> functions" that it refers to.

"Coding Conventions" are about future code; "Type Predicates" describe
the reality.  These two are not necessarily identical.

Closing.

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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 24.5; (elisp) `Type Predicates': Repeat the rule from `Coding
 Conventions'
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2016 10:23:32 -0800 (PST)

(elisp) `Coding Conventions' makes clear that a predicate name that has
multiple words should end in `-p', not just `p'.  This should also be
made clear in node `Type Predicates', which currently says only this
about the naming:

  Following a general Lisp convention for predicate functions, most type
  predicates=A1=AF names end with =A1=AEp=A1=AF.

And that node should have a cross reference to node `Coding
Conventions', which details the "general Lisp convention for predicate
functions" that it refers to.


In GNU Emacs 24.5.1 (i686-pc-mingw32)
 of 2015-04-11 on LEG570
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601
Configured using:
 `configure --prefix=3D/c/usr --host=3Di686-pc-mingw32'

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