Subject: Re: bug#72888: Confusing descriptive text

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2024 13:59:34 +0300

> From: 麻枝忠 <[email-masked]>
> Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2024 14:58:47 +0800
> 
> Equality Predicates (GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual)
> 
> In the descriptive text of function "equal":
> 
> "The equal function recursively compares the contents of objects if they are integers, strings, markers, vectors,
> bool-vectors, byte-code function objects, char-tables, records, or font objects."
> 
> Shouldn't "integers" here be "conses" or "lists"?

No (an integer could be a fixnum or a bignum), but lists and conses
should be in that list.  I've now added that on the emacs-30 release
branch, and I'm therefore closing this bug.  Thanks for pointing out
the omission.