From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marcin Borkowski Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Is there any difference between `equal' and `string=' for strings? Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2021 06:56:22 +0200 Message-ID: <875yw2vxqh.fsf@mbork.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="34219"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: mu4e 1.1.0; emacs 28.0.50 To: Help Gnu Emacs mailing list Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 19 06:57:04 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mGa6y-0008jL-Op for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 19 Aug 2021 06:57:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59470 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mGa6x-0005y5-ON for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 19 Aug 2021 00:57:03 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:47734) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mGa6d-0005xP-5h for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Aug 2021 00:56:43 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([195.110.48.8]:54910) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mGa6Z-0000cG-Q9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Aug 2021 00:56:42 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B1C6E6AF0 for ; Thu, 19 Aug 2021 06:56:32 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mail.mojserwer.eu Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.mojserwer.eu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id bG1oCe9hF591 for ; Thu, 19 Aug 2021 06:56:25 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (178235147038.dynamic-3-poz-k-0-1-0.vectranet.pl [178.235.147.38]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3B67CE620C for ; Thu, 19 Aug 2021 06:56:25 +0200 (CEST) Received-SPF: pass client-ip=195.110.48.8; envelope-from=mbork@mbork.pl; helo=mail.mojserwer.eu X-Spam_score_int: -25 X-Spam_score: -2.6 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3=0.001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL=0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:132604 Archived-At: Well, of course a string and a symbol can never be `equal', but they can be `string='. But what if both arguments are strings? The docstrings seem to imply that you can use `equal' and `string=' interchangeably and they will always give the exact same result. Is that correct? TIA, -- Marcin Borkowski http://mbork.pl