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by maksimum 2447 days ago
As a python programmer I would have no idea what `valid_P` is supposed to mean. Valid Pascals?
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P is shaped like a question mark, though I think it was retronymed to stand for "Predicate"
I think "predicate" is the original meaning of that postfix.

Emacs Lisp, at least, can use question marks in names without batting an eyelash.

I see no reason that would not have been true for Lisps generally since their birth.