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Re: Simple elisp problem with equal


From: David Hansen
Subject: Re: Simple elisp problem with equal
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 02:54:51 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux)

On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 16:35:42 -0700 (PDT) exits funnel wrote:

> I want this:
>
> (equal system-type "gnu/linux")
>
> to evaluate to true but instead it evaluates to nil.
> C-h v system-type indicates its value is "gnu/linux".

`system-type' is a symbol not a string.

(equal system-type 'gnu/linux)

evals to t here.

David


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