From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Are two symbols `equal' iff they are `eq'?
Date: Sun, 09 Aug 2015 18:19:11 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83tws8pk0g.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87si7s5whd.fsf@mbork.pl>
> From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
> Date: Sun, 09 Aug 2015 17:10:06 +0200
>
> tail_recurse:
> QUIT;
> if (EQ (o1, o2))
> return 1;
>
> >From the capitalization I would guess that QUIT is a C macro. From its
> name I would guess that anything after it is irrelevant;-). Well,
> joking aside, I found its definition in the source; do I get it right
> that it quits if something like C-g happens?
Yes.
> If yes, I'd be curious why it is here.
To allow the user to interrupt a (potentially) long operation.
> Apart from that, it seems that I was right: `equal' for
> symbols just calls `eq' (C EQ, not Lisp eq, to be more precise).
What else could it possibly do?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-09 15:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <mailman.7993.1439079676.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-08-09 0:31 ` Are two symbols `equal' iff they are `eq'? Joost Kremers
2015-08-09 5:16 ` Ian Zimmerman
2015-08-09 7:30 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-08-09 14:05 ` Michael Heerdegen
2015-08-09 15:10 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-08-09 15:19 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2015-08-09 15:45 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-08-09 18:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-08-09 19:41 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-08-10 15:26 ` Nicolas Richard
[not found] ` <mailman.8007.1439097407.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-08-09 5:21 ` Rusi
2015-08-09 5:33 ` Ian Zimmerman
2015-08-09 7:42 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-08-09 14:03 ` Michael Heerdegen
2015-08-09 14:42 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-08-09 14:47 ` Michael Heerdegen
[not found] ` <mailman.8011.1439106166.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-08-09 15:38 ` Joost Kremers
2015-08-09 0:20 Marcin Borkowski
2015-08-09 1:52 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-08-09 7:44 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-08-09 15:28 ` Drew Adams
2015-08-09 15:46 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-08-09 16:38 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.8032.1439135226.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-08-09 15:59 ` Stefan Monnier
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