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Re: [RFC PATCH] Per-window face support


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Per-window face support
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2018 14:20:43 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux)

>>>>> > I still wonder why we only allow EQ there, it sounds unnecessarily
>>>>> > restrictive.
>> Agree.  A recent discussion indeed pointed out that EQ is fundamentally
>> flawed and there can be good reasons to try and give up on EQ and use
>> `equal` instead.
> Huh? EQ is the simplest, least flawed primitive one can imagine. It's
> simple object identity comparison.

In the context of bignums and floats it's pretty thorougly flawed.
[ I said we should use `equal` instead but that was a mistake: I meant `eql`.  ]


        Stefan



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