From: Joseph Turner via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: "Mattias Engdegård" <mattias.engdegard@gmail.com>
Cc: yantar92@posteo.net, 63671@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#63671: Add function to test equality of hash tables
Date: Wed, 24 May 2023 19:44:29 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fs7ljfe8.fsf@breatheoutbreathe.in> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <567C6354-0FD1-4441-B5F7-8A9ADC44DB41@gmail.com>
Mattias Engdegård <mattias.engdegard@gmail.com> writes:
> 24 maj 2023 kl. 19.27 skrev Joseph Turner <joseph@breatheoutbreathe.in>:
>
>> Would extending `equal' to handle hash tables be generally useful?
>
> It would, but doing so would be very risky at this point since it would change long-standing semantics.
>
> We could make an augmented version of `equal` but what we really want is one that works for user-defined types (see Ihor's reference to a previous discussion).
>
> Anyway, here's an old patch I had lying around, in case we decide that we do need a shoddy equality predicate for hash tables only.
Thank you for the references, Ihor and Mattias! Since this is a
duplicate of Ihor's thread, my report should probably be closed.
How do I close this report?
Joseph
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-05-25 2:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-05-23 19:32 bug#63671: Add function to test equality of hash tables Joseph Turner via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-05-24 9:27 ` Mattias Engdegård
2023-05-24 17:27 ` Joseph Turner via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-05-24 20:01 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-05-24 20:34 ` Mattias Engdegård
2023-05-25 2:44 ` Joseph Turner via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
2023-05-25 6:31 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-05-25 7:22 ` Joseph Turner via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-05-25 7:22 ` Joseph Turner via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-05-25 8:18 ` Mattias Engdegård
2023-09-11 18:39 ` Stefan Kangas
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