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| author | Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com> | 2019-10-12 22:26:50 +0200 |
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| committer | Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> | 2019-10-12 22:26:50 +0200 |
| commit | 6bc938712fa5eb10b383d71c7a76572e99a6ab91 (patch) | |
| tree | 48470c207226dbc77049a00c16c5f40315c55a91 /doc/lispref/tips.texi | |
| parent | 043d88862c43cebe2a29efa56816244db3df4dd2 (diff) | |
| download | emacs-6bc938712fa5eb10b383d71c7a76572e99a6ab91.tar.gz | |
Document that variables should not be called -p
* doc/lispref/tips.texi (Coding Conventions): Document that
variables should now be called -p (bug#26564).
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/lispref/tips.texi')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/lispref/tips.texi | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/lispref/tips.texi b/doc/lispref/tips.texi index 6d84cfef53b..9f6420949de 100644 --- a/doc/lispref/tips.texi +++ b/doc/lispref/tips.texi @@ -158,7 +158,9 @@ If the purpose of a function is to tell you whether a certain condition is true or false, give the function a name that ends in @samp{p} (which stands for ``predicate''). If the name is one word, add just @samp{p}; if the name is multiple words, add @samp{-p}. -Examples are @code{framep} and @code{frame-live-p}. +Examples are @code{framep} and @code{frame-live-p}. This predicate +suffix should not be used in variable names (i.e., you should name a +variable @code{foo-feature} instead of @code{foo-feature-p}). @item If the purpose of a variable is to store a single function, give it a |