From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 58168@debbugs.gnu.org, mattias.engdegard@gmail.com
Subject: bug#58168: string-lessp glitches and inconsistencies
Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2022 13:40:18 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1oflty-00006o-DN@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83wn9gw2sp.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Tue, 04 Oct 2022 08:55:34 +0300)
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> If the fact that string= says strings are not equal, but string-lessp
> says they are equal, is what bothers you
That result seems paradoxical to me.
I think the way to make sense of it is this: what string-lessp is
really saying is not that the strings are "equal", but rather that
they are lexicographically equivalent.
Perhaps documenting the difference between these two relationships
could make the current behavior comprehensible rather than anomalous.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-04 17:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-09-29 16:24 bug#58168: string-lessp glitches and inconsistencies Mattias Engdegård
2022-09-29 17:00 ` Mattias Engdegård
2022-09-29 17:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-30 20:04 ` Mattias Engdegård
2022-10-01 5:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-01 19:57 ` Mattias Engdegård
2022-10-02 5:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-03 19:48 ` Mattias Engdegård
2022-10-04 5:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-04 17:40 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2022-10-04 18:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-06 9:05 ` Mattias Engdegård
2022-10-06 11:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-07 14:23 ` Mattias Engdegård
2022-10-08 7:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-14 14:39 ` Mattias Engdegård
2022-10-14 15:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-17 12:44 ` Mattias Engdegård
2022-09-30 13:52 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-30 20:12 ` Mattias Engdegård
2022-10-01 5:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-01 11:51 ` Mattias Engdegård
2022-10-01 10:02 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-10-01 10:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-01 13:37 ` Mattias Engdegård
2022-10-01 13:43 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-10-03 19:48 ` Mattias Engdegård
2022-10-04 10:44 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-10-04 11:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-04 14:44 ` Mattias Engdegård
2022-10-04 16:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-06 9:05 ` Mattias Engdegård
2022-10-06 11:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-06 12:43 ` Mattias Engdegård
2022-10-06 14:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-07 14:45 ` Mattias Engdegård
2022-10-07 15:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-08 17:13 ` Mattias Engdegård
2022-10-01 13:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-01 5:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
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