bug#33655: 26.1; A small error in cl-member's documentation

bug#33655: 26.1; A small error in cl-member's documentation

[Xu Chunyang]

(info "(cl) Lists as Sets") says

> With no keyword arguments, ‘cl-member’ is equivalent to ‘memq’.

It is not true, since cl-member uses eql by default, while memq uses eq.

  (cl-member 1.0 '(1.0))
  ;; => (1.0)
  
  (memq 1.0 '(1.0))
  ;; => nil

bug#33655: 26.1; A small error in cl-member's documentation

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Xu Chunyang <mail@xuchunyang.me> writes:

> (info "(cl) Lists as Sets") says
>
>> With no keyword arguments, ‘cl-member’ is equivalent to ‘memq’.
>
> It is not true, since cl-member uses eql by default, while memq uses eq.
>
>   (cl-member 1.0 '(1.0))
>   ;; => (1.0)
>   
>   (memq 1.0 '(1.0))
>   ;; => nil

Yup; the documentation is wrong here.  I've now removed that sentence
about memq from the manual on the Emacs trunk.

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