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authorJan Edmund Lazo <jan.lazo@mail.utoronto.ca>2021-04-09 08:25:08 -0400
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2021-04-09 08:25:08 -0400
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Merge pull request #14326 from janlazo/vim-8.2.0623
vim-patch:8.2.{623,1822,2738}
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@@ -5563,13 +5563,14 @@ id({expr}) *id()*
Returns a |String| which is a unique identifier of the
container type (|List|, |Dict| and |Partial|). It is
guaranteed that for the mentioned types `id(v1) ==# id(v2)`
- returns true iff `type(v1) == type(v2) && v1 is v2` (note:
- |v:_null_list| and |v:_null_dict| have the same `id()` with
- different types because they are internally represented as
- a NULL pointers). Currently `id()` returns a hexadecimal
- representanion of the pointers to the containers (i.e. like
- `0x994a40`), same as `printf("%p", {expr})`, but it is advised
- against counting on exact format of return value.
+ returns true iff `type(v1) == type(v2) && v1 is v2`.
+ Note that |v:_null_string|, |v:_null_list|, and |v:_null_dict|
+ have the same `id()` with different types because they are
+ internally represented as a NULL pointers. `id()` returns a
+ hexadecimal representanion of the pointers to the containers
+ (i.e. like `0x994a40`), same as `printf("%p", {expr})`,
+ but it is advised against counting on the exact format of
+ return value.
It is not guaranteed that `id(no_longer_existing_container)`
will not be equal to some other `id()`: new containers may