From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nicolas Richard Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Are two symbols `equal' iff they are `eq'? Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2015 17:26:31 +0200 Message-ID: <87egjbcggo.fsf@members.fsf.org> References: <20150809051452.23051.3919A296@ahiker.mooo.com> <87a8u07wce.fsf@mbork.pl> <871tfctv49.fsf@web.de> <87si7s5whd.fsf@mbork.pl> <83tws8pk0g.fsf@gnu.org> <87pp2w5uuc.fsf@mbork.pl> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1439220421 2253 80.91.229.3 (10 Aug 2015 15:27:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2015 15:27:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Marcin Borkowski Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 10 17:26:53 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZOoyS-0007rc-Pc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Aug 2015 17:26:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58829 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZOoyR-0005Z1-Ti for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Aug 2015 11:26:51 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39234) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZOoyH-0005Yu-MB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Aug 2015 11:26:42 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZOoyE-0007tl-AC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Aug 2015 11:26:41 -0400 Original-Received: from mxin.ulb.ac.be ([164.15.128.112]:13391) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZOoyE-0007tJ-4J for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Aug 2015 11:26:38 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AksPAKPByFWkD4Xx/2dsb2JhbABdgkmCD6l1AQEBAQEBBps8AoF8AQEBAQEBgQuEIwEBAQR5EAgDDgcDCSUPAQRJE4guz14BCwEfhh+FMoUJB4QsAQSVC5U3kSkmg388M4JMAQEB Original-Received: from mathsrv4.ulb.ac.be (HELO localhost) ([164.15.133.241]) by smtp.ulb.ac.be with ESMTP; 10 Aug 2015 17:26:36 +0200 In-Reply-To: <87pp2w5uuc.fsf@mbork.pl> (Marcin Borkowski's message of "Sun, 09 Aug 2015 17:45:31 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 164.15.128.112 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:106437 Archived-At: Marcin Borkowski writes: > On 2015-08-09, at 17:19, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >>> From: Marcin Borkowski >>> Apart from that, it seems that I was right: `equal' for >>> symbols just calls `eq' (C EQ, not Lisp eq, to be more precise). >> >> What else could it possibly do? > > It could e.g. compare the string representation, FWIW, I think `string=` does that. -- Nico.