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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Thibaut Verron <thibaut.verron@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: string> missing?
Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2015 11:33:44 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvr3pr8p7s.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFsi02T4N9uaE53XORn+bjOxNW12hZ2_5GDHXY55QXm05ARUEA@mail.gmail.com> (Thibaut Verron's message of "Thu, 4 Jun 2015 07:30:08 +0200")

> (setq str1 "foo")
> (setq str2 "foo")
> (setq str3 str1)
> (= str1 str2)       ;;==> *error*
> (eq str1 str2)      ;;==> nil
> (eq str1 "foo")     ;;==> nil
> (eq str1 str3)      ;;==> nil
> (string= str1 str2) ;;==> t

The "standard" equality testing in Elisp is `equal'.
E.g. it's what is used by `add-to-list', `member', and `assoc'.
IOW, usually you're expected to use `equal' unless you need something else.


        Stefan



  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-06-04 15:33 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
2015-06-04 15:33                           ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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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