From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Is there any difference between `equal' and `string=' for strings? Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 08:41:28 +0200 Message-ID: <87lf4wd3dz.fsf@zoho.eu> References: <875yw2vxqh.fsf@mbork.pl> <87v941domi.fsf@zoho.eu> <87tujkd46u.fsf@zoho.eu> Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="29824"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:gEyimHEGTeqjx8eUP8VHPv2SA4M= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 20 08:42:27 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 1mGyET-0007Zv-UJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 20 Aug 2021 08:42:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50208 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mGyES-0003vY-2Z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 20 Aug 2021 02:42:24 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:37796) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mGyDs-0003vC-5K for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Aug 2021 02:41:48 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:50688) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mGyDm-0004Fu-DN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Aug 2021 02:41:46 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mGyDk-0006kG-Ao for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Aug 2021 08:41:40 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no 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:132624 Archived-At: >> (string= 'hi 'hi) -> t > > With symbols their "print names" are used, you can get that > with > > (symbol-name 'hi) ; "hi" The reason for this, I think, is for example so one can do a `defun' like this (defun do-something (method) (when (string= method "now") (message "I'm all over it") )) Then one can do either (do-something "now") or (do-something 'now) -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal