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changeset 42108:dcab51f5352e
Define `empty string' a second time, in a slightly more visible location.
| author | Robert J. Chassell <bob@rattlesnake.com> |
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| date | Mon, 17 Dec 2001 19:03:15 +0000 |
| parents | 7a239c5cc1ed |
| children | 24f8e84cb04d |
| files | lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi Mon Dec 17 16:00:30 2001 +0000 +++ b/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi Mon Dec 17 19:03:15 2001 +0000 @@ -21,8 +21,8 @@ @comment %**end of header -@set edition-number 2.03 -@set update-date 2001 Dec 7 +@set edition-number 2.04 +@set update-date 2001 Dec 17 @ignore ## Summary of shell commands to create various output formats: @@ -4517,6 +4517,9 @@ ordering is lexicographic, so case is significant. The print names of symbols are used instead of the symbols themselves. +An empty string, @samp{""}, a string with no characters in it, is +smaller than any string of characters. + @code{string-equal} provides the corresponding test for equality. Its shorter, alternative name is @code{string=}. There are no string test functions that correspond to @var{>}, @code{>=}, or @code{<=}.