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From: | Michael Heerdegen |
Subject: | bug#23902: 25.1.50; Strange warning on string-collate-equalp's docstring |
Date: | Sun, 10 Jul 2016 05:06:49 +0200 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.95 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes: > > I think that Glenn is saying that you can compare file names for other > > purposes than knowing if they name the same file. > > Then it's not "equality", it's "equivalence". Equivalence implies equality of equivalence classes. These terms depend on the viewpoint. Does `file-equal-p' test whether the files named by the strings are equal, or whether these strings name the same file and are thus equivalent (Maybe it should be named `file-names-equivalent-p')? Michael.
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