On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 20:58:21 +0100, Bert Freudenberg wrote:

> On Feb 14, 2007, at 20:27 , Roel Wuyts wrote:
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>> 'foo' = 'foo' 			true		"ok"
>> 'foo' == 'foo' 			true		"NOT OK"
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>> I can only conclude that this is really not what you want.....
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> Why? If you want to test for identity, use a Symbol.
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> IMHO this is splitting hairs over a non-issue. The issue is mutability  
> of literals.

... which are not constants but objects created from literally  
descriptions, therefore their name :)

IMHO Lukas had the best suggestion so far, something like a preference  
which demands to compile literals as if they where constants.

/Klaus

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