Re: Buffer-local variables affect general-purpose functions

[Stefan Monnier]

> How to compare bytes, then?

As mentioned in my first mention of the problem: `eq'.

> Anyway, we don't have a way of distinguishing between characters and
> bytes, unless we look on something besides the arguments themselves.

`char-equal' has something to distinguish: the fact that we call
`char-equal' instead of `eq' is just the info needed to decide that the
arguments are chars rather than bytes.


        Stefan