Re: Is there any difference between `equal' and `string=' for strings?

[Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>]

* Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> [2021-08-19 07:57]:
> Well, of course a string and a symbol can never be `equal', but they can
> be `string='.  But what if both arguments are strings?  The docstrings
> seem to imply that you can use `equal' and `string=' interchangeably and
> they will always give the exact same result.  Is that correct?

(string-equal 123 "123") -- gives error, as string= is alias for
string-equal that is to handle exclusively strings.

(equalp 123 "123") -- does not give error.

Sometimes program outputs different types, could be `nil' or `string'
and those outputs maybe need to be expected as any type or as
exclusively strings. That is where the difference comes handy, as
sometimes I do want to get error report. If I wish to test strings I
better use `string='


-- 
Jean

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