GNU bug report logs - #43598
replace-in-string: finishing touches

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>

Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2020 20:53:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #85 received at 43598 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
To: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>
Cc: larsi <at> gnus.org, 43598 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#43598: replace-in-string: finishing touches
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2020 23:29:34 -0400

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  > > It is paradoxical, but I think it is correct.
  > > Equal compares the type of the string, not just the
  > > characters in it.

  > No it doesn't. (equal (string-to-multibyte "A") "A") => t.

I am puzzled, then.  Why DOES the other example return nil?

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