Re: master 583cb26 2/3: Improve accuracy in string-replace description (bug#43598)

[Robert Pluim]

>>>>> On Tue, 29 Sep 2020 17:26:55 +0300, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> said:

    >> From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
    >> Cc: John Yates <john@yates-sheets.org>,  drew.adams@oracle.com,
    >> mattiase@acm.org,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
    >> Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2020 09:12:09 +0200
    >> 
    Eli> What's wrong with the below?  That's the natural way I'd say that.
    >> 
    Eli> Replace every occurrence of FROMSTRING with TOSTRING in INSTRING,
    Eli> and return the result.
    >> 
    >> Thatʼs the 'imperative' version of what I originally proposed. I like
    >> it.

    Eli> Who did NOT like it, and why?

Iʼm not going to go back over this already too long thread, but there
were various calls to have the word 'equal' appear, when my whole
starting point was that the result string would not be equal to the
original (except when it is :-))

Robert
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