Re: map-char-table, optimize-char-table and `equal' comparisons

[Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>]

In article <jwvzlqqn9jg.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> > How about adding the new property/attribute :test to
> > char-table (like make-hash-table) and make the default to
> > `equal'?

> That's an option, but maybe a better one is to just add a `test'
> argument to optimize-char-table (and then optimize-char-table could use
> that argument to replace `equal' elements with `eq' ones, so that
> subsequent `map-char-table' calls end up behaving as if a `test'
> function was provided even tho it's actually using just `eq').

Hmmm, it sounds like a good idea.

> Do you remember which call(s) to optimize-char-table needed the use of
> `equal'?

I don't remember well, perhaps a category table.

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Kenichi Handa
handa@ni.aist.go.jp