On Sat, 2014-01-25 at 05:43 +0000, Ihe Onwuka wrote:
> ..are there any drawbacks to always using the general comparison form
>
> thisThing = ('thatThing')
>
> rather than
>
> thisThing eq 'thatThing'
>
> even when you know that you are dealing with a singleton sequence.
I find I can catch a lot of errors by using eq.
I can conceive of an implementation in which eq is faster but I doubt by
very much, you'd have to measure. I've often been quite surprised at
relative speeds of things though.
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