From: exits funnel <exitsfunnel@yahoo.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Simple elisp problem with equal
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 11:47:04 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050427184704.23638.qmail@web52908.mail.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 6667
Many thanks to David, Peter, Ismael and Thien-Thi.
One additional question: I'm still a little confused
about the difference between 'foo and foo. I've read
most or all of the stuff in the lisp manual about
symbols. If anyone could provide a pointer to the
relevent info section I'd really apprciate it.
-exits
--- Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> wrote:
>
> Am 27.04.2005 um 01:35 schrieb exits funnel:
>
> > (equal system-type "gnu/linux")
> >
>
> Since system-type is a symbol, I think its correct
> use is something
> like that:
>
> (string= (symbol-name system-type) "gnu/linux")
>
> I don't know how commutative Elisp is (commutative
> means that (1+2) is
> the same as (2+1)), I've mostly seen statements like
> that:
>
> (string= "gnu/linux" (symbol-name system-type))
>
> --
> Greetings
>
> Pete
>
> "There's no place like 127.0.0.1"
> origin unknown
>
>
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2005-04-27 18:47 exits funnel [this message]
2005-04-27 18:59 ` Simple elisp problem with equal Peter Dyballa
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2005-04-27 19:05 ` David Kastrup
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2005-04-27 0:54 ` David Hansen
2005-04-27 1:00 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
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2005-04-26 23:35 exits funnel
2005-04-27 8:03 ` Ismael Valladolid Torres
2005-04-27 8:28 ` Peter Dyballa
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