Re: Using empty_string as the only "" string

[Juanma Barranquero]

On 4/24/07, Dmitry Antipov <address@hidden> wrote:

> probably I've missed something, but what's the reason(s) to have a
> lot of "" (zero-length) strings ? Why not uniq them into the only
> one ?

With your patch, (eq "" "") => t

So:

ELISP> (eq (substring "ab" 0) (substring "ab" 0))
nil
ELISP> (eq (substring "ab" 1) (substring "ab" 1))
nil
ELISP> (eq (substring "ab" 2) (substring "ab" 2))
t

That doesn't seem a nice behaviour.

            Juanma