This has been discussed previously, either on julia-dev or in github/issues.
--Tim On Thursday, June 12, 2014 10:08:37 AM Aerlinger wrote: > Ruby has a useful convention where methods can end in a '?' to indicate > that it returns a boolean value. This capability would be useful in Julia > as well. Much like the bang (!) suffix on functions it might look something > like this: > > function isEven?(n::Int) > n % 2 == 2 > end > > > isEven?(4) # => true