"Pascal Obry" <p.obry@wanadoo.fr> writes:

> Paul Graham a �crit dans le message <391060A6.7ABCDCFE@cadence.com>...
> >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
> 
> 
> That was not my point. The problem is not the name, the problem is that
> C does not have a string type so there is no operator on them =, <, >, :=
> and no attribute 'Length, 'Last, 'First...

This seems incredibly narrow-minded. Why is the notation so important
to you if the same functionality is available?

strcmp implements =, <, >
strcpy implements :=
strlen implements 'length
and as all arrays in C start with index 0, there is no need for
'first, and 'last is also given by strlen.

> 
> So, we can't even compare strings in Ada and C!
> 
> Pascal.
> 
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