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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Jean-Christophe Helary <brandelune@gmail.com>,
	help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: concat vs format
Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2018 20:09:11 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a91ff9fb-a52c-4a2f-8b57-5d108f502e68@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6038B67F-98A7-42B9-8486-97DB99D63033@gmail.com>

> Is there a difference between:
> (concat firstPartofURL secondPartofURL) and
> (format "%s%s" firstPartofURL secondPartofURL)?

If both args are strings then no; the result
is the same.  But the functions are very
different - they take different args and,
aside from some cases like this one where
the result is the same for some args, their
uses/purposes are different.



  reply	other threads:[~2018-12-09  4:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-12-09  3:50 concat vs format Jean-Christophe Helary
2018-12-09  4:09 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2018-12-09 10:02   ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2018-12-09 11:30     ` Stefan Huchler
2018-12-09 13:42       ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2018-12-09 14:15         ` Stefan Monnier
2018-12-09 14:55           ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2018-12-09 14:57         ` Stephen Berman
2018-12-09 15:44           ` Jean-Christophe Helary

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