Agreed. A little knowledge of how it is to be used can go a long way.
I seem to have a mental block on creating traits. I am sure my code and
applications would benefit - but I just can’t seem to understand what they
are and how to design/implement them.
Russ Whaley
whaley.r...@gmail.com
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No, String is NOT a special case in the ANSI standard, which is what I was
specifically writing about.
WideString is not in the standard, thank goodness (although at the time the
standard was made, it was already clear that at least 16-bit characters
were needed). The ANSI rule perfectly fits the
> On 3 Feb 2025, at 06:33, Richard O'Keefe wrote:
>
> Not that anyone else probably cares, but the ANSI standard says
> - for All objects x y, x = y if and only if y = x.
>The Smalltalk-80 mixup over String and Symbol violated this,
>‘X’ = #x but #x ~= ‘x’.
> - two sequences are = iff
