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Re: Renaming some functions


From: Richard Stallman
Subject: Re: Renaming some functions
Date: Sun, 03 May 2020 23:15:57 -0400

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  > Here's my first concrete renaming proposition:

  >     multibyte-string-p  =>  string-multibyte-p

  > Any objection?

The actual behavior of the function is to return t if the argument is
a multibyte string, nil for any other type.  The clear name for that
is multibyte-string-p.

string-multibyte-p implies a function that accepts only strings as arguments
and returns t if the argument is multibyte.

ISTR that I thought about this when I defined that function, to choose
which of those two names to give it.

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Dr Richard Stallman
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