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

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Message #77 received at 58168 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 58168 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, mattias.engdegard <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#58168: string-lessp glitches and inconsistencies
Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2022 13:40:18 -0400

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  > If the fact that string= says strings are not equal, but string-lessp
  > says they are equal, is what bothers you

That result seems paradoxical to me.

I think the way to make sense of it is this: what string-lessp is
really saying is not that the strings are "equal", but rather that
they are lexicographically equivalent.

Perhaps documenting the difference between these two relationships
could make the current behavior comprehensible rather than anomalous.

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