From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Buffer-local variables affect general-purpose functions Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 10:12:12 -0400 Message-ID: References: <831txozsqa.fsf@gnu.org> <83ppl7y30l.fsf@gnu.org> <83d2h6yezx.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1396015988 31514 80.91.229.3 (28 Mar 2014 14:13:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 14:13:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 28 15:13:17 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WTXX2-00068J-Gl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Mar 2014 15:13:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33812 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WTXX2-0001yk-2S for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Mar 2014 10:13:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41584) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WTXWr-0001pk-7e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Mar 2014 10:13:13 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WTXWj-0001fG-1D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Mar 2014 10:13:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mercure.iro.umontreal.ca ([132.204.24.67]:55744) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WTXWZ-0001dj-LK; Fri, 28 Mar 2014 10:12:47 -0400 Original-Received: from hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.50]) by mercure.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id B690824135; Fri, 28 Mar 2014 10:12:45 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from lechon.iro.umontreal.ca (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA2B01E5B74; Fri, 28 Mar 2014 10:12:12 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by lechon.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id A24BEB40B7; Fri, 28 Mar 2014 10:12:12 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <83d2h6yezx.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 28 Mar 2014 10:11:14 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-DIRO-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-DIRO-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-DIRO-MailScanner-SpamCheck: n'est pas un polluriel, SpamAssassin (score=-2.82, requis 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -2.82, MC_TSTLAST 0.00) X-DIRO-MailScanner-From: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 132.204.24.67 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:171074 Archived-At: > How to compare bytes, then? As mentioned in my first mention of the problem: `eq'. > Anyway, we don't have a way of distinguishing between characters and > bytes, unless we look on something besides the arguments themselves. `char-equal' has something to distinguish: the fact that we call `char-equal' instead of `eq' is just the info needed to decide that the arguments are chars rather than bytes. Stefan