Re: Issue: compare-strings

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> It's quite clear from the Emacs implementation that the behavior is
> intentional:
>
>   end1_char = SCHARS (str1);
>   if (! NILP (end1) && end1_char > XINT (end1))
>     end1_char = XINT (end1);
>
>   end2_char = SCHARS (str2);
>   if (! NILP (end2) && end2_char > XINT (end2))
>     end2_char = XINT (end2);
>
> According to "cvs annotate", this code did not change since April
> 1998, when this function was introduced.

Perhaps mention this facet in the DOC string so that people may make use
of that convenience?

-- 
David Kastrup