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Re: display property strangeness


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: display property strangeness
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 08:47:53 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux)

> (eq (substring fred 0 1) (substring fred 1 2))
> nil

`substring' creates/allocates a string, so (eq (substring ...) ...) will
*always* return nil.
`eq' is pointer equality, whereas `equal' is structural equality.


        Stefan




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