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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: Sun, 10 Jul 2016 17:40:10 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83furhftf9.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wpkumbsm.fsf@web.de> (message from Michael Heerdegen on Sun, 10 Jul 2016 05:06:49 +0200)

> From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
> Cc: oscarfv@telefonica.net (Óscar Fuentes),
>   23902@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2016 05:06:49 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > > I think that Glenn is saying that you can compare file names for other
> > > purposes than knowing if they name the same file.
> >
> > Then it's not "equality", it's "equivalence".
> 
> Equivalence implies equality of equivalence classes.

I think we shouldn't split hair on this matter.  File-name equality is
something that doesn't need explanation, and we don't want to muddy
the waters by looking how to confuse matters even more.

> Does `file-equal-p' test whether the files named by the strings are
> equal, or whether these strings name the same file and are thus
> equivalent

IIUC, it does neither (e.g., because it supports links and other
stuff).

Now, can we please move on to more important things?





  reply	other threads:[~2016-07-10 14:40 UTC|newest]

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 [this message]
2016-07-06 15:55       ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-07-06 16:30         ` Eli Zaretskii
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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