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st: testing equivalence of long variable lists
From
Maarten buis <[email protected]>
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st: testing equivalence of long variable lists
Date
Thu, 25 Mar 2010 20:16:26 +0000 (GMT)
--- Jeremy Freese wrote:
> where tmp1 and tmp2 contain variable lists. My understanding is that
> if the variable list is longer than 244 characters, this will evaluate
> to true if there is some difference between tmp1 and tmp2 after the
> 244th character. Is this correct? How does one test the equality of
> long macros?
if `: list temp1 == temp2'
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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Maarten L. Buis
Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
Wilhelmstrasse 36
72074 Tuebingen
Germany
http://www.maartenbuis.nl
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