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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Re: Understanding Booleans
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 22:33:57 +0100
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Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov> writes:

>> > if Get_Active (Object) then
>> 
>> Yes I know, but for some reason I like to write it like above instead. Hmm.
>
> One idea is to make the function name a "predicate", like Is_Active,
> instead of Get_Active. That makes:
>
> if Is_Active (Object) then
>
> more readable.

Is_Active exists, too, but it's use has been deprecated.