Re: [nongnu] elpa/hyperdrive b5294b4354 4/4: Tidy: Use zerop instead of = 0

[Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>]

Philip Kaludercic wrote:

> FWIW this doesn't matter that much, you can check the
> disassembly to see what is going on after byte compilation:
>
> (disassemble (byte-compile (lambda (a) (= a 0))))

byte code:
  args: (a)
0       varref    a
1       constant  0
2       eqlsign   
3       return    

> (disassemble (byte-compile (lambda (a) (zerop a))))

byte code:
  args: (a)
0       varref    a
1       constant  0
2       eqlsign   
3       return    

They are identical, is that what you mean it doesn't matter
that much?

To use `zerop' is maybe more classy - the attitude being to
minimize everything as much as possible - as it is a unary
function (1 argument) while `=', as it is used here, is binary
(2 arguments).

BTW = can be used unary as well, then it always returns t -
even for nil. (= nil) ; t

But why do that? As it is more classy to just use t :)

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