Very minor point but:

On Sat, 10 May 2008, Jason Morris wrote:

run the input
through the (numberp) function.  (numberp) stands for number-parse, and
gives back a boolean TRUE if its argument parses to any number.

Doesn't Jess follow the original LISP meaning of the "p" suffix
usage in built in as well as user defined functions as "predicate"
rather than "parse", and isn't that a better usage in any case
since it reflects the purpose of any predicate (as you indicate in
the example above) rather than the way it is implemented which
can vary quite a bit (table lookup for predicates with a finite
domain, pointer traversal, graph traversal, numeric or symbolic
computation of any sort).

Doug (more familiar with LISP, OPS and Clips, than with Jess)


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