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Re: no empty (zero) string predicate in Elisp
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: no empty (zero) string predicate in Elisp |
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Sat, 25 Apr 2015 09:30:55 -0400 |
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>>>>> "Emanuel" == Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> writes:
> In one of my w3m extensions [1] I have
> (defun empty-string-p (str)
> (string= str "") )
I do wonder, why you'd rather write
(empty-string-p foo)
instead of
(equal "" foo)
or
(string= "" foo)
I mean, really, what's the gain? It's longer, slower, and not
higher-level either.
Stefan "yes, I know Elisp has `zerop' but that's stupid as well"
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