Re: Names of `stringp`, `intp`, `floatp` …

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On Thu, 20 Mar 2025, Marcos Cruz wrote:

> Just out of curiosity, what does the "p" means in `stringp`, `intp`,
> `floatp`, `functionp`, `objectp`, `arrayp`…?

The "p" is an abreviation of "predicate", and has been inherited from
LISP and Scheme, which have predicate functions such as eg `integerp`,
`floatp` and `consp`.

> When I found those useful functions by the first time, I wondered why
> they were not called, say, `is_string`, `is_int`, `is_float`,
> `is_array`…?

The LISP naming convention was the common naming convention at the time
of LPC4 and μLPC.

 	/grubba

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