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Subject: Re: Strange server names confusion
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Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Sep 2001, Paul Jarc wrote:
>>> Therefore, "nntp:quimby" should work.  But it doesn't, only
>>> "quimby" works.
...
>> (eq (gnus-server-to-method "quimby") (gnus-server-to-method "nntp:quimby"))
...
> Don't forget `gnus-method-equal', `gnus-methods-equal-p' etc.  `eq' should
> probably not be used for comparing methods, I think.

Are methods ever copied within Gnus?  I suspect not, which would imply
that if a method is defined in only one place, eq will give correct
results.  In this particular case, I wanted to know if they were the
same object.  If they weren't, then Gnus might be able to deal with
that (because it uses g-m-e or g-m-e-p), but it would still be a sign
that something was odd.  g-m-e and g-m-e-p would return t for two
methods defined the same way in two different places - this is useful
if you want to let users be sloppy, but not necessarily if you're
debugging, or if you're striving to be unsloppy.


paul