On Feb 14, 2007, at 9:08 PM, Klaus D. Witzel wrote:
On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 20:58:21 +0100, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
On Feb 14, 2007, at 20:27 , Roel Wuyts wrote:
'foo' = 'foo' true "ok" 'foo' == 'foo' true "NOT OK" [...] I can only conclude that this is really not what you want.....
Why? If you want to test for identity, use a Symbol.
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.
Yes but this will be messy since you don't know when you have to turn it on or off. Isn't it?
Math
/Klaus
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