From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
Cc: oscarfv@telefonica.net, 23902@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23902: 25.1.50; Strange warning on string-collate-equalp's docstring
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2016 18:28:25 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83inwin5uu.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bn2aolcm.fsf@web.de> (message from Michael Heerdegen on Wed, 06 Jul 2016 17:08:25 +0200)
> From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
> Cc: oscarfv@telefonica.net (Óscar Fuentes),
> 23902@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2016 17:08:25 +0200
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > As with any such notes in doc strings, we warn about popular mistakes
> > that people make frequently. Trying to compare file names using this
> > function is such a mistake. Any string that is actually a kind of
> > handle to a system object, for which the system itself uses binary
> > comparison, will do as an example of such a mistake, but doing that
> > with file names is a common enough example to warrant mentioning.
>
> I also have trouble to understand. How can I compare file names modulo
> collate-equality, if not with this function?
With string=, of course. (Or, better yet, with file-equal-p, but
that's a different story.)
> But we are speaking about the docstring of `string-collate-equal-p'. It
> is not clear here how it (as an equivalence predicate) could be useful
> for sorting at all.
If it is not useful, then the issue against which the note warns
doesn't exist, does it?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-06 15:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-05 22:05 bug#23902: 25.1.50; Strange warning on string-collate-equalp's docstring Óscar Fuentes
2016-07-06 14:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-07-06 15:08 ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-07-06 15:28 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-07-06 15:46 ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-07-06 16:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-07-06 17:44 ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-07-06 18:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-07-09 17:06 ` Glenn Morris
2016-07-09 17:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-07-09 21:36 ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-07-10 2:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-07-10 3:06 ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-07-10 14:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-07-06 15:55 ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-07-06 16:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-07-06 16:44 ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-07-06 17:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-07-06 22:49 ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-07-07 2:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-07-07 21:52 ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-07-08 10:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-07-08 20:59 ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-07-09 6:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-07-09 17:06 ` Richard Stallman
2016-07-09 22:59 ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-07-06 15:48 ` Glenn Morris
2016-07-06 16:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
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