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 01:02:45 +0200 Message-ID: <87v941domi.fsf@zoho.eu> References: <875yw2vxqh.fsf@mbork.pl> 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="14563"; 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:waG1h7U9jwVw4DP8x9QHE31JrJc= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 20 01:03:31 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 1mGr4N-0003ZF-A6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 20 Aug 2021 01:03:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52326 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mGr4L-0002li-KV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 19 Aug 2021 19:03:29 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:59096) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mGr3r-0002l6-3B for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Aug 2021 19:02:59 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:37272) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mGr3p-00074o-98 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Aug 2021 19:02:58 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mGr3n-0002vl-2f for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Aug 2021 01:02:55 +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:132618 Archived-At: Marcin Borkowski wrote: > Well, of course a string and a symbol can never be `equal', > but they can be `string='. But what if both arguments > are strings? ... and if both arguments are symbols? (string= 'hi 'hi) ; t (Why ever one would use `string=' for that.) Yeah, it is a jungle all that ... -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal