Examining the result of #'length: `eql', not `=', it's better style & cheaper 2011-03-08 Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net> * buff-menu.el (list-buffers-noselect): * byte-optimize.el (byte-optimize-identity): * byte-optimize.el (byte-optimize-if): * byte-optimize.el (byte-optimize-nth): * byte-optimize.el (byte-optimize-nthcdr): * bytecomp.el (byte-compile-warn-wrong-args): * bytecomp.el (byte-compile-two-args-19->20): * bytecomp.el (byte-compile-list): * bytecomp.el (byte-compile-beginning-of-line): * bytecomp.el (byte-compile-set): * bytecomp.el (byte-compile-set-default): * bytecomp.el (byte-compile-values): * bytecomp.el (byte-compile-values-list): * bytecomp.el (byte-compile-integerp): * bytecomp.el (byte-compile-multiple-value-list-internal): * bytecomp.el (byte-compile-throw): * cl-macs.el (cl-do-arglist): * cl-macs.el (cl-parse-loop-clause): * cl-macs.el (multiple-value-bind): * cl-macs.el (multiple-value-setq): * cl-macs.el (get-setf-method): * cmdloop.el (command-error): * cmdloop.el (y-or-n-p-minibuf): * cmdloop.el (yes-or-no-p-minibuf): * coding.el (unencodable-char-position): * cus-edit.el (custom-face-prompt): * cus-edit.el (custom-buffer-create-internal): * cus-edit.el (widget-face-action): * cus-edit.el (custom-group-value-create): * descr-text.el (describe-char-unicode-data): * dialog-gtk.el (popup-builtin-question-dialog): * dragdrop.el (experimental-dragdrop-drop-log-function): * dragdrop.el (experimental-dragdrop-drop-mime-default): * easymenu.el (easy-menu-add): * easymenu.el (easy-menu-remove): * faces.el (read-face-name): * faces.el (set-face-stipple): * files.el (file-name-non-special): * font.el (font-combine-fonts): * font.el (font-set-face-font): * font.el (font-parse-rgb-components): * font.el (font-rgb-color-p): * font.el (font-color-rgb-components): * gnuserv.el (gnuserv-edit-files): * help.el (key-or-menu-binding): * help.el (function-documentation-1): * help.el (function-documentation): * info.el (info): * isearch-mode.el (isearch-exit): * isearch-mode.el (isearch-edit-string): * isearch-mode.el (isearch-*-char): * isearch-mode.el (isearch-complete1): * ldap.el (ldap-encode-country-string): * ldap.el (ldap-decode-string): * minibuf.el (read-file-name-internal-1): * minibuf.el (read-non-nil-coding-system): * minibuf.el (get-user-response): * mouse.el (drag-window-divider): * mule/ccl.el: * mule/ccl.el (ccl-compile-if): * mule/ccl.el (ccl-compile-break): * mule/ccl.el (ccl-compile-repeat): * mule/ccl.el (ccl-compile-write-repeat): * mule/ccl.el (ccl-compile-call): * mule/ccl.el (ccl-compile-end): * mule/ccl.el (ccl-compile-read-multibyte-character): * mule/ccl.el (ccl-compile-write-multibyte-character): * mule/ccl.el (ccl-compile-translate-character): * mule/ccl.el (ccl-compile-mule-to-unicode): * mule/ccl.el (ccl-compile-unicode-to-mule): * mule/ccl.el (ccl-compile-lookup-integer): * mule/ccl.el (ccl-compile-lookup-character): * mule/ccl.el (ccl-compile-map-multiple): * mule/ccl.el (ccl-compile-map-single): * mule/devan-util.el (devanagari-compose-to-one-glyph): * mule/devan-util.el (devanagari-composition-component): * mule/mule-cmds.el (finish-set-language-environment): * mule/viet-util.el: * mule/viet-util.el (viet-encode-viscii-char): * multicast.el (open-multicast-group): * newcomment.el (comment-quote-nested): * newcomment.el (comment-region): * newcomment.el (comment-dwim): * regexp-opt.el (regexp-opt-group): * replace.el (map-query-replace-regexp): * specifier.el (derive-device-type-from-tag-set): * subr.el (skip-chars-quote): * test-harness.el (test-harness-from-buffer): * test-harness.el (batch-test-emacs): * wid-edit.el (widget-choice-action): * wid-edit.el (widget-symbol-prompt-internal): * wid-edit.el (widget-color-action): * window-xemacs.el (push-window-configuration): * window-xemacs.el (pop-window-configuration): * window.el (quit-window): * x-compose.el (electric-diacritic): It's better style, and cheaper (often one assembler instruction vs. a C funcall in the byte code), to use `eql' instead of `=' when it's clear what numerical type a given result will be. Change much of our code to do this, with the help of a byte-compiler change (not comitted) that looked for calls to #'length (which always returns an integer) in its args.

--- a/lisp/newcomment.el	Tue Mar 08 22:32:49 2011 +0000
+++ b/lisp/newcomment.el	Tue Mar 08 23:41:52 2011 +0000
@@ -284,7 +284,7 @@
 	(goto-char (match-beginning 0))
 	(forward-char 1)
 	(if unp (delete-char 1) (insert "\\"))
-	(when (= (length ce) 1)
+	(when (eql (length ce) 1)
 	  ;; If the comment-end is a single char, adding a \ after that
 	  ;; "first" char won't deactivate it, so we turn such a CE
 	  ;; into !CS.  I.e. for pascal, we turn } into !{
@@ -922,7 +922,7 @@
      ((consp arg) (uncomment-region beg end))
      ((< numarg 0) (uncomment-region beg end (- numarg)))
      (t
-      (setq numarg (if (and (null arg) (= (length comment-start) 1))
+      (setq numarg (if (and (null arg) (eql (length comment-start) 1))
 		       add (1- numarg)))
       (comment-region-internal
        beg end
@@ -979,7 +979,7 @@
 	;; specified, calling comment-kill is not very clever.
 	(if arg (comment-kill (and (integerp arg) arg)) (comment-indent))
       (let ((add (if arg (prefix-numeric-value arg)
-		   (if (= (length comment-start) 1) comment-add 0))))
+		   (if (eql (length comment-start) 1) comment-add 0))))
 	;; Some modes insist on keeping column 0 comment in column 0
 	;; so we need to move away from it before inserting the comment.
 	(indent-according-to-mode)