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From: Jon S Anthony <jsa@synquiry.com>
Subject: Re: C vs. Ada - strings
Date: 2000/05/04
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Hyman Rosen wrote:
> 
> Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> writes:
> > Strings in Ada are too boring, it's much more exciting to code
> > in a language where
> >   if ("abc" == "abc")
> > has implementation dependent semantics, and keeps you in
> > suspense on the outcome :-)
> > At least I think it's impl dependent -- perhaps I remembered
> > wrong, and it's always false :-)
> 
> Actually, it's unspecified. ...

That's what implementation dependent _means_.

/Jon

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