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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov@yandex.ru>
Cc: Emacs development discussions <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: One more string functions change
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 06:48:45 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3c8f874e-73d7-435e-8898-2085cb76faba@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53AE3B17.4030100@yandex.ru>

> > (let ((case-fold-search  t)) (string-lessp s1 s2))
> > We already have a global variable for this. Why add an argument for it?
> 
> Value of case-fold-search doesn't affect string-lessp and string-equal.

Oh, right.  What was the reason for that?  Anyone know?

> > How many occurrences of such a programming cliche for `string-lessp'
> > do you find in the Emacs sources, for example?  One?  Zero?
> 
> Just ask grep:
>... lisp/gnus/gnus-util.el:1440: (string-equal (downcase x) (downcase y))
>...

> > or: (string-lessp (upper s1) (upper s2))

To me, that cliche seems just as easy & clear as (string-lessp s1 s2 t).



  reply	other threads:[~2014-06-28 13:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-27 15:27 One more string functions change Dmitry Antipov
2014-06-27 15:35 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-06-27 16:46 ` Paul Eggert
2014-06-27 19:46   ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-27 20:46     ` Paul Eggert
2014-06-27 20:53       ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-28 16:21     ` Dmitry Antipov
2014-06-28 17:19       ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-29  2:53         ` Dmitry Antipov
2014-06-29 15:13           ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-29 16:38             ` Dmitry Antipov
2014-06-29 16:48               ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-30  6:21                 ` Internationalize Emacs's messages [Was: Re: One more string functions change] Dmitry Antipov
2014-06-28 17:26       ` One more string functions change Yuri Khan
2014-06-27 22:46 ` Drew Adams
2014-06-28  3:48   ` Dmitry Antipov
2014-06-28 13:48     ` Drew Adams [this message]
2014-06-28 16:32       ` Dmitry Antipov
2014-06-30 13:18     ` Stefan Monnier

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