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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Bozhidar Batsov <bozhidar@batsov.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] trunk r115287: * lisp/emacs-lisp/helpers.el (string-empty-p): New function.
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 13:23:55 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvbo13ax1d.fsf-monnier+emacsdiffs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1VmRIu-00084e-Mh@vcs.savannah.gnu.org> (Bozhidar Batsov's message of "Fri, 29 Nov 2013 16:52:32 +0000")

> +  (string= string ""))

I think `equal' is preferable since it avoids signaling an error if
STRING is not a string.

> +(defsubst string-blank-p (string)
> +  "Check whether STRING is either empty or only whitespace."
> +  (string-empty-p (string-trim string)))

Better use (string-match-p "\\`...\\'" string) to avoid allocating a new
string.


        Stefan



       reply	other threads:[~2013-11-29 18:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <E1VmRIu-00084e-Mh@vcs.savannah.gnu.org>
2013-11-29 18:23 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2013-11-29 21:29   ` [Emacs-diffs] trunk r115287: * lisp/emacs-lisp/helpers.el (string-empty-p): New function Bozhidar Batsov
2013-11-29 23:50     ` helpers.el [was: ... lisp/emacs-lisp/helpers.el...] Drew Adams
2013-11-30  7:41       ` Bozhidar Batsov
2013-11-30  8:07       ` Jambunathan K
2013-12-04 15:55         ` Ted Zlatanov

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