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


From: Jean Louis
Subject: Re: Is there any difference between `equal' and `string=' for strings?
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2021 12:05:11 +0300
User-agent: Mutt/2.0.7+183 (3d24855) (2021-05-28)

* Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor 
<help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> [2021-08-20 09:33]:
> Jean Louis wrote:
> 
> >> `cl-equalp' I give up ;)
> >
> > equalp is very handy.
> 
> The docstring says
> 
>   This is like ‘equal’, except that it accepts numerically
>   equal numbers of different types (float vs. integer), and
>   also compares strings case-insensitively.

I don't know, I use `equalp' in Common Lisp. Not in Emacs Lisp. Though
I may mix it sometimes.


-- 
Jean

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