Re: ?-suffix for booleans... good-idea? or bad-idea?

[Alex Kost]

Paul (2017-04-25 12:21 -0400) wrote:

> On 04/25/2017 11:50 AM, Jan Wedekind wrote:
>
>> What do people think?  I'm struggling with deciding what's the right
>> thing for my own code, but leaning towards "we shouldn't use the ?
>> suffix for just boolean values".
>
> I like using the '?' suffix only for predicates.  I often use 'is-' 
> prefix for boolean values, which reads well: (if is-raining ...)

Thanks for sharing!  I also like to use '?' for functions but I always
felt uncomfortable to use it for variables.  Using "is-" (or "has-" or
alike) sounds interesting, I'm going to try this convention in my code,
thanks for the idea!

-- 
Alex