From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9dd95bf: * lisp/emacs-lisp/pcase.el (pcase--u1): Fix bignums
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2018 18:02:39 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83zhv0oink.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvo9bgiypj.fsf-monnier+emacsdiffs@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Fri, 26 Oct 2018 10:17:33 -0400)
> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2018 10:17:33 -0400
>
> > Stefan, this change needs a suitable change in the docs (both the doc
> > string and the ELisp manual): they still claim integers are compared
> > using 'equal', which AFAIU is now inaccurate.
>
> AFAIK using `eql` gives the same result as comparing with `equal`:
> It's just an internal optimization that is transparent to the user.
That's so, but I find documentation that explicitly calls out 'equal'
misleading when the code actually invokes 'eql' instead. Maybe we
should make the text less explicit then?
> So, just like we did not document the fact that integers (and symbols)
> where actually compared with `eq`
That we already had misleading docs doesn't mean we need to continue
having misleading docs.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-26 15:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-10-26 9:03 [Emacs-diffs] master 9dd95bf: * lisp/emacs-lisp/pcase.el (pcase--u1): Fix bignums Eli Zaretskii
2018-10-26 14:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-10-26 15:02 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2018-10-26 16:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-10-26 17:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-10-26 18:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-10-26 19:00 ` Paul Eggert
2018-10-26 19:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-10-26 19:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-10-26 19:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-10-27 12:15 ` Andy Moreton
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