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From: tomas@tuxteam.de
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: `compare-strings' style question
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:53:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091120065301.GB30194@tomas> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87einuij59.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>

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On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 05:17:22PM +0100, David Kastrup wrote:
> tomas@tuxteam.de writes:

[...]

> > Thanks. Still looks a bit funna, though :-)
                                 ^^^ (small keyboard syndrome :)

> In my opinion, t was the wrong choice for a match.  nil would have been
> much better because you can't use the result of compare-strings as a
> condition.

Yes. Nil, or zero, better mimicking C's strcmp.

> But I suppose there is not much one can do now because of compatibility.

Right. Funny though: one of the things I did before whining on this list
was to grep through all the Emacs-provided .el files (23.1.50.1), to get
some idea about its usage and I got no hits.

But one never knows about other users "out there".

Thanks
- -- tomás
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-11-20  6:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.11037.1258628274.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-11-19 11:39 ` `compare-strings' style question David Kastrup
2009-11-19 15:27   ` tomas
2009-11-19 19:55     ` Andreas Politz
2009-11-20  6:47       ` tomas
     [not found]   ` <mailman.11057.1258644880.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-11-19 16:17     ` David Kastrup
2009-11-19 20:54       ` Barry Margolin
2009-11-20  7:00         ` tomas
2009-11-20  8:13           ` Andreas Politz
2009-11-20  6:53       ` tomas [this message]
2009-11-19 10:50 tomas
2009-11-20  3:08 ` Kevin Rodgers
2009-11-20  7:03   ` tomas
2009-11-20 10:34     ` Kevin Rodgers
2009-11-24  9:32       ` tomas

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