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Re: comaptibility in STRING usage
- To: bug-lisp at MIT-MC, bug-lispm at MIT-AI, nil at MIT-MC
- Subject: Re: comaptibility in STRING usage
- From: Guy.Steele at CMU-10A
- Date: Tue, 21 Oct 80 15:13:00 GMT
- In-reply-to: JONL@MIT-MC's message of 20 Oct 80 17:11-EST
- Original-date: 21 October 1980 1113-EDT (Tuesday)
It seems to me that the rule generally stated by naive users, while
not always correct, is a good guide to intuition when extending
EQUAL: "two things are EQUAL if they print the same". Inasmuch as
"Foo" and "fOO" do *not* print the same, I would therefore argue
that they not be EQUAL.