GNU bug report logs - #58168
string-lessp glitches and inconsistencies

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Mattias Engdegård <mattias.engdegard <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2022 16:25:01 UTC

Severity: normal

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Message #20 received at 58168 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Mattias Engdegård <mattias.engdegard <at> gmail.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 58168 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#58168: string-lessp glitches and inconsistencies
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2022 22:12:24 +0200

30 sep. 2022 kl. 15.52 skrev Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>:

> (string 4194176)
> => "\200"
> "\x80"
> => "\200"
> 
> which are kinda equal in some ways, and not in other ways.

And (string 128)
=> "\200"

but painted in a different colour so that the alert reader suspects that something odd is going on...
(What about printing it as "\u0080" instead? Only affects the C1 controls...)

> I think A makes the most intuitive sense, somehow.  But perhaps my
> intuition is off.

Can't say my intuition is any more reliable. On the other hand, intuition says that counter-intuitive solutions are very attractive, but I think it's just trying to confuse us.
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