On Feb 14, 2007, at 9:08 PM, Klaus D. Witzel wrote:

> On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 20:58:21 +0100, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
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>> On Feb 14, 2007, at 20:27 , Roel Wuyts wrote:
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>>> 'foo' = 'foo' 			true		"ok"
>>> 'foo' == 'foo' 			true		"NOT OK"
>>> [...]
>>> 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.
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> ... which are not constants but objects created from literally  
> descriptions, therefore their name :)
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> 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

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