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Re: scroll-down with pixel transition


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: scroll-down with pixel transition
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2017 18:37:36 +0300

> From: Kaushal Modi <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2017 15:07:11 +0000
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden, 
>       address@hidden
> 
>  > I learnt recently that foo-p naming convention is only for predicate
>  > functions that return nil or non-nil.
> 
>  We have several dozen of variables in Emacs whose names end in "-p".
> 
> It's just a convention, and it makes sense so I suggested that.

IMO it's not a convention as long as we don't have it in the
appropriate section of the ELisp manual.  If we want to make it a
convention, we should begin by documenting it.  Otherwise we have no
reason to expect contributors to discover such conventions and follow
them.



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