From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Nicolas Graner <nicolas@graner.name>
Cc: 59779-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#59779: string-equal-ignore-case's docstring is misleading
Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2022 19:08:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83359xg2c9.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86k039spzo.fsf@graner.name> (message from Nicolas Graner on Fri, 02 Dec 2022 17:57:15 +0100)
> From: Nicolas Graner <nicolas@graner.name>
> Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2022 17:57:15 +0100
>
> The docstring for string-equal-ignore-case reads:
> Like ‘string-equal’, but case-insensitive.
>
> However, string-equal accepts symbols and strings as arguments, while
> string-equal-ignore-case accepts only strings. This can be confusing to
> people familiar with string-equal.
>
> Either string-equal-ignore-case should be made to accept symbols as
> arguments, or the doc should be clarified.
I fixed the documentation, thanks.
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2022-12-02 16:57 bug#59779: string-equal-ignore-case's docstring is misleading Nicolas Graner
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