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From: | Emanuel Berg |
Subject: | Re: Is there any difference between `equal' and `string=' for strings? |
Date: | Fri, 20 Aug 2021 08:41:28 +0200 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
>> (string= 'hi 'hi) -> t > > With symbols their "print names" are used, you can get that > with > > (symbol-name 'hi) ; "hi" The reason for this, I think, is for example so one can do a `defun' like this (defun do-something (method) (when (string= method "now") (message "I'm all over it") )) Then one can do either (do-something "now") or (do-something 'now) -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal
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