Re: One more string functions change

[Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov@yandex.ru>]

On 06/28/2014 05:48 PM, Drew Adams wrote:

>> Value of case-fold-search doesn't affect string-lessp and string-equal.
>
> Oh, right.  What was the reason for that?  Anyone know?

Someone was too lazy or just didn't consider this important
enough - who knows?

>>> or: (string-lessp (upper s1) (upper s2))
>
> To me, that cliche seems just as easy & clear as (string-lessp s1 s2 t).

Sure, but if we treat strings as immutable objects, both 'upper' should
create copies; the latter can avoid memory allocation at all and so
disprove the well-known "LISP programmers know the value of everything
and the cost of nothing" principle.

Dmitry