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From: Hyman Rosen <hymie@prolifics.com>
Subject: Re: C vs. Ada - strings
Date: 2000/05/04
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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. Some could be true and some could be false
within the same program. (We're talking about C (or C++), of course.)