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From: Paul Graham <pgraham@cadence.com>
Subject: Re: Desirability of C++
Date: 2000/05/03
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Pascal Obry wrote:
> Even to compare two strings you have to write:
>    if (strcmp (name1, name2) == 0) {
>       ...
> I do prefer:
>    if name1 = name2 then
>       ...

Just because the standard library provides a somewhat unreadable
function like strcmp doesn't mean you have to use it directly.  In C you
can write:

    if (StrEqual(name1, name2)) {
	...
 
assuming an appropriate definition of StrEqual.  You can also write:

    if (StrIEqual(name1, name2)) {
	...

for case-insensitive comparisons.  How do you compare strings
case-insensitively in Ada?  By writing a routine like StrIEqual, in
which case you lose the notational ease of '='.

Paul