# HG changeset patch
# User Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
# Date 1193803688 0
# Node ID 89433f61240b43046ef4c4b85f101843466918b6
# Parent  1f62cc014b19d5079ef45bd7f2e343a050b5d322
(Creating Strings): Null strings from concat not unique.

diff -r 1f62cc014b19 -r 89433f61240b doc/lispref/strings.texi
--- a/doc/lispref/strings.texi	Wed Oct 31 03:19:56 2007 +0000
+++ b/doc/lispref/strings.texi	Wed Oct 31 04:08:08 2007 +0000
@@ -259,7 +259,8 @@
 
 @noindent
 The @code{concat} function always constructs a new string that is
-not @code{eq} to any existing string.
+not @code{eq} to any existing string, except when the result is empty
+(since empty strings are canonicalized to save space).
 
 In Emacs versions before 21, when an argument was an integer (not a
 sequence of integers), it was converted to a string of digits making up