Re: no empty (zero) string predicate in Elisp

[Stefan Monnier]

>>>>> "Emanuel" == Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> writes:

> In one of my w3m extensions [1] I have
>     (defun empty-string-p (str)
>       (string= str "") )

I do wonder, why you'd rather write

           (empty-string-p foo)
instead of
           (equal "" foo)
or
           (string= "" foo)

I mean, really, what's the gain?  It's longer, slower, and not
higher-level either.


        Stefan "yes, I know Elisp has `zerop' but that's stupid as well"