Subject: Re: bug#76055: 29.4; Doc of string-empty-p

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2025 22:13:58 +0200

> From: Drew Adams <[email-masked]>
> CC: "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>
> Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2025 17:13:17 +0000
> 
> To be more precise: Please do it for each
> such function where you can guess that this
> behavior isn't just a side effect or that's
> likely to be changed without notice.

How can anyone know that?

> My guess is that 90% or more of the cases
> where we do this are intentional - we
> explicitly _want_ to let users use a symbol
> in place of a string.  That means it's in
> the _design_, not just an implementation
> side effect.

That a function calls string= doesn't yet mean its author meant to
allow symbols.