Re: Is there any difference between `equal' and `string=' for strings?

[Jean Louis]

* Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor 
<help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> [2021-08-20 09:42]:
> >> (string= 'hi 'hi) -> t
> >
> > With symbols their "print names" are used, you can get that
> > with
> >
> >   (symbol-name 'hi) ; "hi"
> 
> The reason for this, I think, is for example so one can do
> a `defun' like this
> 

 (defun do-something (method)
    (when (string= method "now")
     (message "I'm all over it") ))

> Then one can do either
> 
>   (do-something "now")
> 
> or
> 
>   (do-something 'now)

That is something new to me. I would not ever use it that way, but you
discovered it. It looks like incorrect use as (type-of 'now) ⇒ symbol
and is then compared as string.

I would do:

(setq now "Not now") ⇒ "Not now"
(do-something now) ⇒ nil


-- 
Jean

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