From: Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov@yandex.ru>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: Emacs development discussions <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: One more string functions change
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 20:32:44 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53AEEE2C.8040705@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3c8f874e-73d7-435e-8898-2085cb76faba@default>
On 06/28/2014 05:48 PM, Drew Adams wrote:
>> Value of case-fold-search doesn't affect string-lessp and string-equal.
>
> Oh, right. What was the reason for that? Anyone know?
Someone was too lazy or just didn't consider this important
enough - who knows?
>>> or: (string-lessp (upper s1) (upper s2))
>
> To me, that cliche seems just as easy & clear as (string-lessp s1 s2 t).
Sure, but if we treat strings as immutable objects, both 'upper' should
create copies; the latter can avoid memory allocation at all and so
disprove the well-known "LISP programmers know the value of everything
and the cost of nothing" principle.
Dmitry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-28 16:32 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
2014-06-28 16:32 ` Dmitry Antipov [this message]
2014-06-30 13:18 ` Stefan Monnier
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