Many thanks to David, Peter, Ismael and Thien-Thi. One additional question: I'm still a little confused about the difference between 'foo and foo. I've read most or all of the stuff in the lisp manual about symbols. If anyone could provide a pointer to the relevent info section I'd really apprciate it.
-exits --- Peter Dyballa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Am 27.04.2005 um 01:35 schrieb exits funnel: > > > (equal system-type "gnu/linux") > > > > Since system-type is a symbol, I think its correct > use is something > like that: > > (string= (symbol-name system-type) "gnu/linux") > > I don't know how commutative Elisp is (commutative > means that (1+2) is > the same as (2+1)), I've mostly seen statements like > that: > > (string= "gnu/linux" (symbol-name system-type)) > > -- > Greetings > > Pete > > "There's no place like 127.0.0.1" > origin unknown > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Help-gnu-emacs mailing list Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs
