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* Is there any difference between `equal' and `string=' for strings?
@ 2021-08-19  4:56 Marcin Borkowski
  2021-08-19  6:21 ` Jean Louis
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From: Marcin Borkowski @ 2021-08-19  4:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
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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



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