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Jay R. Ashworth jra at baylink.com
Tue Jul 20 13:08:36 PDT 2004


On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 03:01:38PM -0400, Kenneth Brody wrote:
> "Jay R. Ashworth" wrote:
> [...]
> > > > And I got little x both ways; we aren't trying to say that "eq" isn't
> > > > case sensitive, are we?
> > >
> > > Are you saying that eq _is_ case sensitive?  (It certainly looks that
> > > way, since that's the only way your code could work.)
> > 
> > Never mind.  I always forget that "eq" doesn't mean "is equal to" in
> > filePro.  My bad.
> 
> Sure it does.  However, "is equal to" refers to case-insensitive "equals".

I guess it depends on what your definition of "equal" is.

You know, *just once*, I'd love to hear "well, that was probably not
the best way we could have {defined,implemented} that, but we're stuck
with it 40 MLOC later."

Just once.

Cheers,
-- jra
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