Re: no empty (zero) string predicate in Elisp

[Marcin Borkowski]

On 2015-04-26, at 20:34, Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> wrote:

> Cool. "Predicate" is a word from the grammars of human
> languages, but I don't know its exact meaning, neither
> there or in programming languages (until now as for
> programming).

AFAIK, "predicate" is a word from /logic/, and it means (more or less)
a function which consumes one or more arguments of any type and gives
back a truth-value.  (Not necesarily exactly that, because Russell's
paradox etc., but this is the idea.)

Best,

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Marcin Borkowski
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Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University