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From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: "Štěpán Němec" <stepnem@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs-27 eebfb72 1/2: Document constant vs mutable objects better, Re: emacs-27 eebfb72 1/2: Document constant vs mutable objects better, Re: emacs-27 eebfb72 1/2: Document constant vs mutable objects better
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2020 01:18:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pnc1kapz.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k12a4gm1.fsf@gmail.com> ("Štěpán Němec"'s message of "Mon, 20 Apr 2020 12:05:26 +0200")

Štěpán Němec <stepnem@gmail.com> writes:

> > (eq "" "") => t.  You don't even have to compile.
>
> Yes, but that's a corner case [...]

Sure.  OTOH it is a good demonstration of the fact that not every
"created" string is a new object.  That only one "" exists is one
optimization.  That the compiler sometimes maps (other) equal strings to
the same object is another one.  Anyway, I didn't intend to demonstrate
something special.  But that "" is unique was not as obvious as the
uniqueness of nil for me.

> > It is important.  This once bit me, and it took a long time until I
> > found out what was wrong.
> Here I assume you mean something else than the empty string case?

Yes, it was something different, I don't recall exactly, I guess I was
using strings as keys in some association structure or so.

Michael.



  reply	other threads:[~2020-04-20 23:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20200418200112.26900.1274@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
     [not found] ` <20200418200114.85C8C20A2B@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
2020-04-18 21:24   ` emacs-27 eebfb72 1/2: Document constant vs mutable objects better Štěpán Němec
2020-04-18 21:57     ` Drew Adams
2020-04-19 20:37     ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-19 22:33       ` Štěpán Němec
2020-04-19 23:48         ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-20  0:18           ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-04-20 10:05           ` emacs-27 eebfb72 1/2: Document constant vs mutable objects better, Re: emacs-27 eebfb72 1/2: Document constant vs mutable objects better, " Štěpán Němec
2020-04-20 23:18             ` Michael Heerdegen [this message]
2020-04-22 17:54             ` Paul Eggert
2020-05-02 12:50               ` Štěpán Němec
2020-05-02 21:08                 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-20  0:16         ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-04-21  1:48           ` Richard Stallman

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