From: Andreas Politz <politza@fh-trier.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: `compare-strings' style question
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:13:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r5rtfwat.fsf@fh-trier.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20091120070039.GC30194@tomas
tomas@tuxteam.de writes:
>
> Yes, that would be a similar problem as C, where zero's alter ego is
> false. It still looks a bit funny to say
>
> if(!strcmp(foo, bar)) ...
>
> ...but at least, it's just a problem of name choice (more appropriate
> would have been something along the lines of strdiff).
>
I don't know. It just follows the standard for compare functions in C,
which is different from lisp predicates, as well as lisp compare
functions.
-ap
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-20 8:13 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <mailman.11037.1258628274.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-11-19 11:39 ` `compare-strings' style question David Kastrup
2009-11-19 15:27 ` tomas
2009-11-19 19:55 ` Andreas Politz
2009-11-20 6:47 ` tomas
[not found] ` <mailman.11057.1258644880.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-11-19 16:17 ` David Kastrup
2009-11-19 20:54 ` Barry Margolin
2009-11-20 7:00 ` tomas
2009-11-20 8:13 ` Andreas Politz [this message]
2009-11-20 6:53 ` tomas
2009-11-19 10:50 tomas
2009-11-20 3:08 ` Kevin Rodgers
2009-11-20 7:03 ` tomas
2009-11-20 10:34 ` Kevin Rodgers
2009-11-24 9:32 ` tomas
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