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bug#23902: 25.1.50; Strange warning on string-collate-equalp's docstring
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Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#23902: 25.1.50; Strange warning on string-collate-equalp's docstring |
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Wed, 06 Jul 2016 18:28:25 +0300 |
> From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
> Cc: oscarfv@telefonica.net (Óscar Fuentes),
> 23902@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2016 17:08:25 +0200
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > As with any such notes in doc strings, we warn about popular mistakes
> > that people make frequently. Trying to compare file names using this
> > function is such a mistake. Any string that is actually a kind of
> > handle to a system object, for which the system itself uses binary
> > comparison, will do as an example of such a mistake, but doing that
> > with file names is a common enough example to warrant mentioning.
>
> I also have trouble to understand. How can I compare file names modulo
> collate-equality, if not with this function?
With string=, of course. (Or, better yet, with file-equal-p, but
that's a different story.)
> But we are speaking about the docstring of `string-collate-equal-p'. It
> is not clear here how it (as an equivalence predicate) could be useful
> for sorting at all.
If it is not useful, then the issue against which the note warns
doesn't exist, does it?
- bug#23902: 25.1.50; Strange warning on string-collate-equalp's docstring, Óscar Fuentes, 2016/07/05
- bug#23902: 25.1.50; Strange warning on string-collate-equalp's docstring, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/07/06
- bug#23902: 25.1.50; Strange warning on string-collate-equalp's docstring, Michael Heerdegen, 2016/07/06
- bug#23902: 25.1.50; Strange warning on string-collate-equalp's docstring, Glenn Morris, 2016/07/09
- bug#23902: 25.1.50; Strange warning on string-collate-equalp's docstring, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/07/09
- bug#23902: 25.1.50; Strange warning on string-collate-equalp's docstring, Óscar Fuentes, 2016/07/09
- bug#23902: 25.1.50; Strange warning on string-collate-equalp's docstring, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/07/09
- bug#23902: 25.1.50; Strange warning on string-collate-equalp's docstring, Michael Heerdegen, 2016/07/09
- bug#23902: 25.1.50; Strange warning on string-collate-equalp's docstring, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/07/10