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25.0.50; cl-union ignores :test when lists are equal

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Nicolas Richard <youngfrog <at> members.fsf.org>
Cc: 22729 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#22729: 25.0.50; cl-union ignores :test when lists are equal
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 12:03:24 +1100

Nicolas Richard <youngfrog <at> members.fsf.org> writes:

> Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:
>> And that's because the two "foo" strings are eql here.  Apparently the
>> Emacs reader is being clever...
>
> I'm surprised because it didn't fail for me.
>
> As a test, this:
>     emacs --batch -Q --eval '(let ((str1 "foo") (str2 "foo")) (message
> "%S" (eql str1 str2)))'
> returns nil for me.

I was surprised, too, but in the ert test the two strings were
definitely eql.  Perhaps ert byte-compiles the functions, and the byte
compiler is doing the clever string thing?

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