From: Thibaut Verron <thibaut.verron@gmail.com>
To: Nicolas Richard <youngfrog@members.fsf.org>
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: string> missing?
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2015 10:08:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFsi02SpnqYzL_AqJL1zkASumqWyYPsSRV8fdp048RFjvUDK6A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y4jzudd8.fsf@members.fsf.org>
2015-06-04 9:44 GMT+02:00 Nicolas Richard <youngfrog@members.fsf.org>:
>
> Thibaut Verron <thibaut.verron@gmail.com> writes:
> > Mostly to this:
> >
> > (setq str1 "foo")
> > (setq str2 "foo")
> > (setq str3 str1)
> > (= str1 str2) ;;==> *error*
> > (eq str1 str2) ;;==> nil
> > (eq str1 "foo") ;;==> nil
> > (eq str1 str3) ;;==> nil
>
> If that is not a typo, then it is a bug. I get t.
I am 99% sure that it wasn't a typo, but indeed I get t now. I was at
home on windows the first time, and now at work on linux, so I'll need
to retry it tonight to be sure.
>
>
> > (string= str1 str2) ;;==> t
>
> And also:
> (equal str1 str2) ;;==> t
Oh, I didn't know this one. And then it opens up a whole new world of
equality functions, equalp for case-insensitive comparison,
equal-including-properties...
But indeed, it looks like equal is a good candidate for type-agnostic,
dwim-style equality testing.
Thibaut
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-06-04 8:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-03 9:05 string> missing? Nicolas Petton
2015-06-03 14:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-06-03 15:03 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-06-03 15:26 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-06-03 15:46 ` Nick Andryshak
2015-06-03 15:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-06-03 16:10 ` Nick Andryshak
2015-06-03 16:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-06-03 16:50 ` Nick Andryshak
2015-06-03 18:10 ` Andreas Schwab
2015-06-03 19:13 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-06-03 19:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-06-03 19:34 ` Nick Andryshak
2015-06-03 19:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-06-03 20:11 ` Nick Andryshak
2015-06-03 20:37 ` Jay Belanger
2015-06-03 20:53 ` Nick Andryshak
2015-06-03 21:35 ` Jay Belanger
2015-06-03 21:36 ` Thibaut Verron
2015-06-03 22:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-06-04 5:30 ` Thibaut Verron
2015-06-04 7:44 ` Nicolas Richard
2015-06-04 8:08 ` Thibaut Verron [this message]
2015-06-04 15:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-06-03 22:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-06-04 2:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-06-04 6:43 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-06-04 7:02 ` Bozhidar Batsov
2015-06-04 7:53 ` Gnus & Mail-Followup-To (was: string> missing?) Nicolas Richard
2015-06-04 9:04 ` Gnus & Mail-Followup-To Tassilo Horn
2015-06-04 12:50 ` Nicolas Richard
2015-06-05 17:07 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-06-06 8:48 ` Nicolas Richard
2015-06-04 4:20 ` string> missing? Thierry Volpiatto
2015-06-04 15:52 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-06-03 21:24 ` Richard Stallman
2015-06-04 15:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-06-05 17:56 ` Richard Stallman
2015-06-05 19:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-06-05 20:40 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-06-05 21:35 ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-06-05 21:53 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-06-05 22:04 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-06-06 6:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-06-06 8:53 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-06-07 0:28 ` Richard Stallman
2015-06-06 1:52 ` Richard Stallman
2015-06-06 7:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-06-07 0:28 ` Richard Stallman
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