> > I assume the P suffix denotes a pointer. I'm not sure I like that, but
> > don't change it; I don't have a reason to object other than aesthetics
> > really.
>
> In the olden (some say golden) days of C and C++, we used to have pMyVariable.
> If
> thingP is idiomatic, I wonder what motivated Pike and Co. to do it
> differently? I am
> guessing the same reason they made a bunch of other things unnecessarily
> different.
Traditionally, a P as a suffix denotes a Boolean. It stands for Predicate.
> > I assume the P suffix denotes a pointer. I'm not sure I like that, but
> > don't change it; I don't have a reason to object other than aesthetics
> > really.
>
> In the olden (some say golden) days of C and C++, we used to have pMyVariable.
> If
> thingP is idiomatic, I wonder what motivated Pike and Co. to do it
> differently? I am
> guessing the same reason they made a bunch of other things unnecessarily
> different.
Traditionally, a P as a suffix denotes a Boolean. It stands for Predicate.