From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: About equality in Emacs
Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2013 17:58:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lib5ibbp.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.18912.1359903712.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> (Xue Fuqiao's message of "Sun, 3 Feb 2013 23:01:38 +0800")
Xue Fuqiao <xfq.free@gmail.com> writes:
> In the trunk version of (info "(cl) Equality Predicates"):
>
> Also note that the Common Lisp functions `member' and `assoc' use
> `eql' to compare elements, whereas Emacs Lisp follows the MacLisp
> tradition and uses `equal' for these two functions. In Emacs, use
> `memq' (or `cl-member') and `assq' (or `cl-assoc') to get functions
> which use `eql' for comparisons.
>
> I'm confused with the last sentence. Don't `memq' and `assq' compare
> objects with `eq'? Why does the manual say that they "get functions
> which use `eql' for comparisons"?
Doesn't make much sense to me as well. I filed a bug report; it's now
bug#13620. I think this sentence was just damaged when it was updated.
Regards,
Michael.
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[not found] <mailman.18912.1359903712.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-02-03 16:22 ` About equality in Emacs Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-02-03 16:58 ` Michael Heerdegen [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.18922.1359910610.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-02-04 13:59 ` Michael Heerdegen
[not found] <mailman.193.1359910844.12660.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-02-04 0:20 ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-02-04 0:27 ` Drew Adams
2013-02-03 15:01 Xue Fuqiao
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