From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
Cc: oscarfv@telefonica.net, 23902@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23902: 25.1.50; Strange warning on string-collate-equalp's docstring
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2016 19:30:09 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8360sin2zy.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877fcyoj6j.fsf@web.de> (message from Michael Heerdegen on Wed, 06 Jul 2016 17:55:16 +0200)
> From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
> Cc: oscarfv@telefonica.net, 23902@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2016 17:55:16 +0200
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > > I also have trouble to understand. How can I compare file names modulo
> > > collate-equality, if not with this function?
> >
> > With string=, of course. (Or, better yet, with file-equal-p, but
> > that's a different story.)
>
> Does that compare mod collate-equality?
Sorry, I cannot parse this.
> > > But we are speaking about the docstring of `string-collate-equal-p'.
> > > It is not clear here how it (as an equivalence predicate) could be
> > > useful for sorting at all.
> >
> > If it is not useful, then the issue against which the note warns
> > doesn't exist, does it?
>
> Useful for equality testing, or for comparing (and sorting)?
Could be for either. It depends on what the programmer wants to
achieve; we are talking some hypothetical application here.
> I don't understand why the doc of `string-collate-equal-p' mentions
> sorting at all. Is it useful for that?
<Shrug> It could be used to gather similar "equivalent" file names
together, for example.
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Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-05 22:05 bug#23902: 25.1.50; Strange warning on string-collate-equalp's docstring Óscar Fuentes
2016-07-06 14:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-07-06 15:08 ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-07-06 15:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-07-06 15:46 ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-07-06 16:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-07-06 17:44 ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-07-06 18:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-07-09 17:06 ` Glenn Morris
2016-07-09 17:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-07-09 21:36 ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-07-10 2:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-07-10 3:06 ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-07-10 14:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-07-06 15:55 ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-07-06 16:30 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-07-06 16:44 ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-07-06 17:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-07-06 22:49 ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-07-07 2:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-07-07 21:52 ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-07-08 10:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-07-08 20:59 ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-07-09 6:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-07-09 17:06 ` Richard Stallman
2016-07-09 22:59 ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-07-06 15:48 ` Glenn Morris
2016-07-06 16:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
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